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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:11-13

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“It should be understood that in holy Scripture, blood in the plural number, has the signification of sin: thus in the Psalms Deliver me from blood-guiltinessp. (Ps. 51:14).”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:11-13 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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