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.

Origen

c. A.D. 184–253 Patristic

(tom. xiii. c. 20) But if the Father seeks, He seeks through Jesus, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost, and to teach men what true worship was. God is a Spirit; i. e. He constitutes our real life, just as our breath (spirit) constitutes our bodily life.

Source details

A.D. 253 · 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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