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Patristic A.D. 430 · Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 3:9-12

Augustine of Hippo, on John 3:9

Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430

John 3:9 · Douay-Rheims

“Nicodemus answered, and said to him: How can these things be done?”

On this verse:

“(Tr. xii. c. 6) What think we? that our Lord wished to insult this master in Israel? He wished him to be born of the Spirit: and no one is born of the Spirit except he is made humble; for this very humility it is, which makes us to be born of the Spirit. He however was inflated with his eminence as a master, and thought himself of importance because he was a doctor of the Jews. Our Lord then casts down his pride, in order that he may be born of the Spirit.”

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