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Gregory the Great — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:14

Patristic A.D. 604

Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604

“(lxviii. Moral. c. 6. [12.]) In Scripture language as, and as it were, are sometimes put not for likeness but reality; whence the expression, As of the Only-Begotten of the Father.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:14 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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