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Patristic A.D. 604 · Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 16:23-28

Gregory the Great, on John 16:23

Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604
John 16:23 · Douay-Rheims
“And in that day you shall not ask me any thing. Amen, amen I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it you.”
On this verse:
“(xxx. Moral. viii.) When He declares that He will shew them plainly of the Father, He alludes to the manifestation about to take place of His own majesty, which would both shew His own equality with the Father, and the procession of the coeternal Spirit from both.”

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