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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:60-71

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“Or we must say, that He elected the eleven for one purpose, the twelfth for another: the eleven to fill the place of Apostles, and persevere in it unto the end; the twelfth to the service of betraying Him, which was the means of saving the human race.”

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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