John 8:37
Douay-Rheims
I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
John Chrysostom
(Hom. liv. 2) Our Lord says this with a view to put down their vain boasting of their descent; and persuade them to vest their hopes of salvation no longer on the natural relationship, but on the adoption. For this it was which prevented them from coming to Christ; viz. their thinking that their relationship to Abraham was sufficient for their salvation.
Source details
A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:37-41
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.