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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 18:3-9

Patristic A.D. 407
John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407
“(Hom. lxxxiii) He Himself had blinded their eyes. For that darkness was not the reason is clear, because the Evangelist says that they had lanterns. Though they had not lanterns, however, they should at least have recognised Him by His voice. And if they did not know Him, yet how was it that Judas, who had been with Him constantly also, did not know Him? And Judas also which betrayed Him stood with them. Jesus did all this to shew that they could not have taken Him, or even seen Him when He was in the midst of them, had He not permitted it.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 18:3-9 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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