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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 17:6-8

Patristic A.D. 735
Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735
“And they have kept Thy word. He calls Himself the Word of the Father, because the Father by Him created all things, and because He contains in Himself all words: as if to say, They have committed Me to memory so well, that they never will forget Me. Or, They have kept Thy word, i. e. in that they have believed in Me: as it follows, Now they have known that all things whatsoever Thou hast given Me, are of Thee. Some read, Now I have known, &c. But this cannot be correct. For how could the Son be ignorant of what was the Father’s? It is the disciples He is speaking of; as if to say, They have learnt that there is nothing in Me alien from Thee, and that whatever I teach cometh from Thee.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 17:6-8 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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