John 1:17 (WEB)
For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
Catechism · 2
Grace and Justification
“Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 1:12-18; 17:3; Rom 8:14-17; 2 Pet 1:3-4.
"Our Father Who Art in Heaven"
“This new relationship is the purely gratuitous gift of belonging to each other: we are to respond to "grace and truth" given us in Jesus Christ with love and faithfulness.” — Catechism footnote: Jn 1:17; Cf. Hos 2:21-22; 6:1-6.
Fathers and councils · 25
Athanasius of Alexandria
“With a view to this has John exclaimed, ‘The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.’” — editor's note: John i. 17.
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Tertullian
“…so to do through the prophets, has reformed for the better; and has premonished that it should come to pass that, just as “the law was given through Moses” at a definite time, so it should be believed to have been temporarily observed and kept.” — editor's note: John i. 17.
Read the whole comment“And thus, when the grace of God advanced to higher degrees among men, an accession of efficacy was granted to the waters and to the angel.” — editor's note: John i. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment“…prophecy—so completely failed, after the transfer of the whole Spirit to the Lord, that he presently sent to inquire whether He whom he had himself preached, whom he had pointed out when coming to him, were “HE.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 11, 12; John i. 6–36.
Read the whole comment“So faith, illumined by patience, when it was becoming propagated among the nations through “Abraham’s seed, which is Christ,” and was superinducing grace over the law, made patience her pre-eminent coadjutrix for amplifying and fulfilling the law, because that alone had been lacking unto the doctrine of righteousness.” — editor's note: John i. 17; Rom. vi. 14, 15.
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Ambrose of Milan
““The Law was given by Moses, grace by Me.”” — editor's note: S. John i. 17.
Read the whole comment“It is Truth, Righteousness, the Power of God: not dumb, for it is the Word; not insensible, for it is Wisdom; not vain and foolish, for it is Power; not soulless, for it is the Life; not dead, for it is the Resurrection.” — editor's note: Christ the Word: S. John i. 1–18. Wisdom: 1 Cor. i. 24, 30. Life and Resurrection: S. John xi. 25.
Read the whole comment“And therefore He said: “No man hath seen God at any time, except the only-begotten Son, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.”” — editor's note: S. John i. 17, 18.
Read the whole comment“If, then, the Spirit was in the figure, is He not present in the reality, since Scripture says to us: “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: S. John i. 17.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And well did our Master know, upon which two commandments He hung all the Law and the Prophets.” — editor's note: Matt. xxii. 40. For he says in his Con. Faust. xvii. 6, remarking on John i. 17, a text which he often quotes in this connection: “The law itself by being…
Read the whole comment“Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ.”…” — editor's note: John i. 17.
Read the whole comment“…not by our own but by God’s dispensation, that just now we heard out of the Gospel, that “the Law was given by Moses, Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: John i. 17.
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John Chrysostom
“But how is it said in another place, “The Law was given by Moses” ( John i. 17 ), and here “by Angels”?” — the author cites it
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Leo the Great
“As, therefore, the Old Testament was the witness to the new, and “the law was given by Moses: but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ;” as the divers sacrifices prefigured the one Victim, and the slaughter of many lambs was ended by the offering up of Him, of whom it is said, “Behold the Lamb…” — editor's note: S. John i. 17. Cf. Rev. xix. 20, “for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophesy.”
Read the whole comment“Because, as says the blessed John, “the law was given through Moses: but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ,” in Whom is fulfilled both the promise of prophetic figures and the purpose of the legal ordinances: for He both teaches the truth of prophecy by His…” — editor's note: S. John i. 17.
Read the whole comment“…its voluntary observance have increased, as the evangelist John says, “Because the Law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: S. John i. 17.
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John Cassian
“But, however, let us see what the gospel of God thinks about this same grace of our Lord: “Grace and truth,” it says, “came by Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: S. John i. 17.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Wherefore also the Scripture says, “The law was given through Moses,” not by Moses, but by the Word, and through Moses His servant.” — editor's note: John i. 17.
Read the whole comment“Next is to be learned the greatness of the Saviour after Him, and the newness of grace; for, according to the apostle, “the law was given by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ;” and the gifts granted through a faithful servant are not equal to those bestowed by the true Son.” — editor's note: John i. 17.
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Catena Aurea on John
- OrigenCatena Aurea on John
This is to be considered a continuation of the Baptist’s testimony to Christ, a point which has escaped the attention of many, who think that from this to, He hath declared Him, (v. 18) St. John the Apostle is…
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Or thus; John the Evangelist here adds his testimony to that of John the Baptist, saying, And of his fulness have we all received. These are not the words of the forerunner, but of the disciple; as if he meant to…
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But what have ye received? Grace for grace. So that we are to understand that we have received a certain something from His fulness, and over and above this, grace for grace; that we have first received of His…
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Or we have received grace for grace; that is, the new in the place of the old. For as there is a justice and a justice besides, an adoption and another adoption, a circumcision and another circumcision; so is there a…
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Or, we may refer grace to knowledge, truth to wisdom. Amongst the events of time the highest grace is the uniting of man to God in One Person; in the eternal world the highest truth pertains to God the Word.
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Cross-references · 38
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.12.
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Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 4.
Cited together in Catechism §1996.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius II.5.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius II.5.
Cited together in Catechism §1996.
Cited together in Catechism §1996.
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Cited together in Confessions XII.18.
Cited together in Confessions XII.18.
Cited together in Confessions XII.18.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius II.5.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.12.
Cited together in Catechism §1996.
Cited together in Catechism §1996.
Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 3.
Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 3.
Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 3.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.12.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.12.
Cited together in Catechism §2787.
Cited together in Catechism §2787.
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Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.12.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.12.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.12.