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Gregory the Great — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 15:12-16

Patristic A.D. 604

Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604

“(Hom. in Evang. xxvii.) But let no one who has attained to this dignity of being called the friend of God, attribute this superhuman gift1 to his own merits: Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 15:12-16 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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