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Augustine of Hippo — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 19:19-22

Patristic A.D. 430
Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430
“O ineffable working of Divine power even in the hearts of ignorant men! Did not some hidden voice sound from within, and, if we may say so, with clamorous silence, saying to Pilate in the prophetic words of the Psalm, Alter not the inscription of the titlea? But what say ye, ye mad priests: will the title be the less true, because Jesus said, I am the King of the Jews? If that which Pilate wrote cannot be altered, can that be altered which the Truth spoke? Pilate wrote what he wrote, bceause our Lord said what He said.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 19:19-22 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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