John 8:23 (WEB)
He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
Fathers and councils · 25
Augustine of Hippo
“Again, another of these directs his attention to that which is said, “In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth,” and beholdeth Wisdom,—the Beginning, because It also speaketh unto us.” — editor's note: John viii. 23.
Read the whole comment“For which cause to such the Lord saith, “Ye are from beneath, I am from above: ye are of this world, I am not of this world.”” — editor's note: John viii. 23
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John Chrysostom
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Jerome
“For they know nothing of Him who, as He comes from above, speaks only of the things that are above.” — editor's note: Joh. viii. 23.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
In accordance with what was just, He said that no man laid hands on Him, because His hour was not yet come; He now speaks to the Jews of His passion, as a free, and not a compulsory sacrifice on His part: Then said…
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The connexion of these words is such, that they might have been spoken at one place and one time, or at another place and another time: as either nothing at all, or some things, or many may have intervened.
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But some one will object: If this was spoken to men who persisted in unbelief, how is it He says, Ye shall seek Me? For to seek Jesus is to seek truth and wisdom. You will answer that it was said of His persecutors,…
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Ye shall seek Me, then, He says, not from compassionate regret, but from hatred: for after He had departed from the eyes of men, He was sought for both by those who hated, and those who loved Him: the one wanting to…
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Note: sin is in the singular number, your in the plural; to express one and the same wickedness in all.
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But I ask, as it is said below that many believed on Him, whether He speaks to all present, when He says, Ye shall die in your sins? No: He speaks to those only, whom He knew would not believe, and would therefore…
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This He tells His disciples in another place; without saying to them, however, Ye shall die in your sin, He only says, Whither I go, ye cannot follow Me now; not preventing, but only delaying their coming.
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The Word, while still present, yet threatens to depart. So long as we preserve the seeds of truth implanted in our minds, the Word of God does not depart from us. But if we fall into wickedness, then He says to us, I…
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They take these words, as they generally do, in a carnal sense, and ask, Will He kill Himself, because He saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come? A foolish question. For why? Could they not go where He went, if He…
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He shews here that He will rise again in glory, and sit at the right hand of God.
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May they not however have a higher meaning in saying this? For they had opportunities of knowing many things from their apocryphal books or from tradition. As then there was a prophetical tradition, that Christ was…
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As if to say, No wonder that ye think as ye do, seeing ye are carnal, and understand nothing spiritually. I am from above.
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From whom above? From the Father Himself, Who is above all. Ye are of this world, I am not of this world. How could He be of the world, by Whom the world was made?
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And Who was before the world, whereas they were of the world, having been created after the world had begun to exist.
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Or He says, I am not of this world, with reference to worldly and vain thoughts.
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I affect nothing worldly, nothing earthly: I could never come to such madness as to kill Myself. Apollinarius, however, falsely infers from these words, that our Lord’s body was not of this world, but came down from…
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Beneath, and, of this world, are different things. Beneath, refers to a particular place; this material world embraces different tractsd, which all are beneath, as compared with things immaterial and invisible, but,…
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Our Lord expresses His meaning in the words, Ye are of this world, i. e. ye are sinners. All of us are born in sin; all have added by our actions to the sin in which we were born. The misery of the Jews then was, not…
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For if He came in order to take away sin, and a man cannot put that off, except by washing, and cannot be baptized except he believe; it follows, that he who believes not must pass out of this life, with the old man,…
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His saying, If ye believe not that I am, without adding any thing, proves a great deal. For thus it was that God spoke to Moses, I am that I am. But how do I understand, I am that I am, (Exod. 3) and, If ye believe…
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It is manifest, that he, who dies in his sins, though he say that he believes in Christ, does not really believe. For he who believes in His justice does not do injustice; he who believes in His wisdom, does not act…
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 16.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.