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Basil of Caesarea — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:1

Patristic A.D. 379

Basil of Caesarea · c. A.D. 330–379

“(Hom. in Princ. Joan. c. 3) Wherefore then Word? Because born impassibly, the Image of Him that begat, manifesting all the Father in Himself; abstracting from Him nothing, but existing perfect in Himself.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:1 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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