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Origen — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 13:12-20

Patristic A.D. 253

Origen · c. A.D. 184–253

“(t. xxxii. c. 7.) But it is not necessary for one who wishes to do all the commandments of Jesus, literally to perform the act of washing feet. This is merely a matter of custom; and the custom is now generally dropped.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 13:12-20 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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