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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:57-59

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“Mystically, a man throws a stone at Jesus, as often as he harbours an evil thought; and if he follows it up, so far as lies in him, he kills Jesus.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:57-59 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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