John 8:48
Douay-Rheims
The Jews therefore answered, and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
Gregory the Great
(Hom. xviii. in Evang.) See; when God suffers a wrong, He does not reply reproachfully: Jesus answered, I have not a devil. An intimation this to us, that when reproached by our neighbours falsely, we should not retort upon them by bringing forward their evil deeds, however true such charges might be; lest the vehicle of a just rebuke turn into a weapon of rage.
Source details
A.D. 604 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:48-51
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.