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Patristic A.D. 430 · Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:21-24

Augustine of Hippo, on John 8:21

Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430
John 8:21 · Douay-Rheims
“Again therefore Jesus said to them: I go, and you shall seek me, and you shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you cannot come.”
On this verse:
“(Tract. xxviii) They take these words, as they generally do, in a carnal sense, and ask, Will He kill Himself, because He saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come? A foolish question. For why? Could they not go where He went, if He killed Himself? Were they never to die themselves? Whither I go, then, He says; meaning not His departure at death, but where He went after death.”

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