John 1:19
Douay-Rheims
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?
Gregory the Great
(Hom. vii. c. 2) Ye know that the only-begotten Son is called the Word of the Father. Now we know, in the case of our own utterance, the voice first sounds, and then the word is heard. Thus John declares himself to be the voice, i. e. because he precedes the Word, and, through his ministry, the Word of the Father is heard by man.
Source details
A.D. 604 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:19-23
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.