John 4:23 Douay-Rheims

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.

John Chrysostom

A.D. 347–407 Patristic

(Hom. xxxiii. 2) He speaks here of the Church; wherein there is true worship, and such as becometh God; and therefore adds, For the Father seeketh such to worship Him. For though formerly He willed that mankind should linger under a dispensation of types and figures, this was only done in condescension to human frailty, and to prepare men for the reception of the truth.

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A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:19-24

PD · Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels — St. John ↗

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