John 8:53
Douay-Rheims
Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself?
Bede the Venerable
Whom makest Thou Thyself? i. e. Of what merit, of what dignity wouldest Thou be accounted? Nevertheless, Abraham only died in the body; his soul lived. And the death of the soul which is to live for ever, is greater than the death of the body that must die some time.
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A.D. 735 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:52-56
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.