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Augustine of Hippo — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 13:6-11

Patristic A.D. 430

Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430

“(Tr. lvi. 4) Or, the disciples when washed had only to have their feet washed; because while man lives in this world, he contracts himself with earth, by means of his human affections, which are as it were his feet.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 13:6-11 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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