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Didymus the Blind, on 1John 4:6
Didymus the Blind · c. A.D. 313–398
1John 4:6 · Douay-Rheims
“We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.”
On this verse:
“If we take the word hear literally, it is clear that this cannot be true, since everybody can pick up the sounds of the words. It is therefore clear that the word means something more than that—it means that we should do what we hear. If someone does not know that he is supposed to act, he has not really heard.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.