John 1:13
Douay-Rheims
Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John Chrysostom
(Hom. x. [ix.] 3) The Evangelist makes this declaration, that being taught the vileness and inferiority of our former birth, which is through blood, and the will of the flesh, and understanding the loftiness and nobleness of the second, which is through grace, we might hence receive great knowledge, worthy of being bestowed by him who begat us, and after this shew forth much zeal.
Source details
A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:11-13
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.