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Augustine of Hippo — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:60-71

Patristic A.D. 430

Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430

“(Tr. xxvii. 2) And if His disciples thought that saying hard, what would His enemies think? Yet it was necessary to declare a thing, which would be unintelligible to men. God’s mysteries should draw men’s attention, not enmity.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:60-71 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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