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Augustine of Hippo — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 3:27-30

Patristic A.D. 430
Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430
“(Tr. xiii. c. 9) Or perhaps John is speaking here of himself: I am a mere man, and have received all from heaven, and therefore think not that, because it has been given me to be somewhat, I am so foolish as to speak against the truth.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 3:27-30 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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