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Theophylact of Ohrid — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 12:20-26

Orthodox 1107

Theophylact of Ohrid · c. 1055–1107

“It were harsh to say that a man should hate his soul; so He adds, in this world: i. e. for a particular time, not for ever. And we shall gain in the end by so doing: shall keep it unto life eternal.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 12:20-26 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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