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Bede the Venerable, on John 1:4
Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735
John 1:4 · Douay-Rheims
“In him was life, and the life was the light of men.”
On this verse:
“(in 1 Joh.) The Evangelist having said that every creature was made by the Word, lest perchance any one might think that His will was changeable, as though He willed on a sudden to make a creature, which from eternity he had not made; he took care to shew that, though a creature was made in time, in the Wisdom of the Creator it had been from eternity arranged what and when He should create.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.