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Augustine of Hippo — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:44-47

Patristic A.D. 430
Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430
“(xi. de Civ. Dei, c. xiv) Or when our Lord says, The truth is not in him, He intends it as an index: as if we had asked Him, how it appeared that the devil stood not in the truth; and He said, Because the truth is not in him. For it would be in him, if he stood in it.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:44-47 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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