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Augustine of Hippo — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 19:9-12

Patristic A.D. 430

Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430

“(Tr. cxvi) Pilate had sought from the first to release: so we must understand, from thence, to mean from this cause, i. e. lest he should incur guilt by putting to death an innocent person.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 19:9-12 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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