John 1:18 Douay-Rheims

No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Augustine of Hippo

A.D. 354–430 Patristic

(in Joan. Tr. iii. c. 17) In the bosom of the Father, i. e. in the secret Presence1 of the Father: for God hath not the folde on the bosom, as we have; nor must be imagined to sit, as we do; nor is He bound with a girdle, so as to have a fold: but from the fact of our bosom being placed innermost, the secret Presence of the Father is called the bosom of the Father. He then who, in the secret Presence of the Father, knew the Father, the same hath declared what He saw.

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A.D. 430 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:18

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