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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:15-21

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“This ship, however, does not carry an idle crew; they are all stout rowers; i. e. in the Church not the idle and effeminate, but the strenuous and persevering in good works, attain to the harbour of everlasting salvation.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:15-21 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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