John 6:60
Douay-Rheims
Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard, and who can hear it?
Augustine of Hippo
(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.
Source details
A.D. 430 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:60-71
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.