John 8:25 (WEB)
They said therefore to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
Fathers and councils · 25
Augustine of Hippo
“…Son, the latter of the Father: the former the Beginning of the latter, whence also He is called the Head of Christ, although Christ likewise is the Beginning, but not of the Father; the latter, moreover, the Image of the former, although in no respect dissimilar, and although absolutely and without difference equal…” — editor's note: In reference probably to John viii. 25, where the Vulgate gives principium qui et loquor vobis as the literal equivalent for the Greek Ϣὴν ἀρχὴν ὅ, τι καὶ λαλῶ…
Read the whole comment“The same is Thy Word, which is also “the Beginning,” because also It speaketh unto us.” — editor's note: John viii. 25, Old Ver. Though some would read, Qui et loquitur, making it correspond to the Vulgate, instead of Quia et loquitur, as above, the latter is…
Read the whole comment“For He answered to those who asked Him, “Who art Thou?” and said, “Even the same that I said unto you, the Beginning;” since His Father also is the Beginning, of whom is the only-begotten Son, in which Beginning was the Word, for the Word was with God.” — editor's note: John viii. 25.
Read the whole comment“He said, also, that He was “the beginning which also discoursed to them.”” — editor's note: Se esse principium quod et loqueretur eis, as the rendering of the τὴν ἀρχὴν ὁ τι καὶ λαλῶ ὑμῖν in John viii. 25.
Read the whole comment“For, according to the form of God, He is the beginning, that also speaketh unto us, in which “beginning” God created the heaven and the earth; but according to the form of a servant, “He is a bridegroom coming out of His chamber.”” — editor's note: John viii. 25
Read the whole comment“He replied, “Even the Beginning, who also speak to you.”” — editor's note: John viii. 25
Read the whole comment“Therefore, when the Jews asked Him who He was, He answered that He was the Principle.” — editor's note: John viii. 25; or “the beginning,” following a different reading from ours.
Read the whole comment“…Word, who is named in Scripture “the Beginning,” as He Himself, in the gospel, replied to the Jews when they asked Him who He was, that He was the Beginning;—I will not contest the point, chiefly because it gives me the liveliest satisfaction to find the Trinity celebrated in the very beginning of the book of…” — editor's note: Augustin refers to John viii. 25; see p. 195. He might rather have referred to Rev. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“Because the Lord had said before, “If ye believe not that I am, ye shall die in your sins.”” — editor's note: Chap. viii. 25, 24.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For he has not listened to the Lord, saying, The Son abideth for ever.” — editor's note: John viii. 25.
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Ambrose of Milan
“He answered: “The beginning, even as I tell you.”” — editor's note: S. John viii. 25. St. Ambrose’s words: “Principium quod et loquor vobis.”
Read the whole comment“…shall He come to an end, Who is the Beginning and the End of the Universe; for being the Beginning, how could He take and receive that which He already had, or how shall He come to an end, being Himself the End of all things, so that in that End we have an abiding-place without end?” — editor's note: “And,” we may add; “already was.”—St. Ambrose refers to St. John viii. 25, but the reference is only justifiable by means of a defective rendering of the…
Read the whole comment“Wherefore, for both reasons He says: “I came not from Myself;” and again: “I am the beginning, of which also I speak to you.”” — editor's note: S. John viii. 25.
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Basil the Great
“You will thus find what was the first movement of time; then that the creation of the heavens and of the earth were like the foundation and the groundwork, and afterwards that an intelligent reason, as the word beginning indicates, presided in the order of visible things.” — editor's note: In the Homily of Origen extant in the Latin of Rufinus (Migne Pat. Gr. xii. 146) ἀρχή is used of the Divine Word, “In principio. Quod est omnium principium…
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John Chrysostom
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Our Lord having said, If ye believe not that I am, ye shall die in your sins; they enquire of Him, as if wishing to know in whom they are to believe, that they might not die in their sin: Then said they unto Him, Who…
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In some copies we find, Who also speak to you; but it is more consistent to read for (quia), not, who (qui): in which case the meaning is: Believe Me to be the beginning, for for your sakes have I condescended to…
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See here the madness of the Jews; asking after so long time, and after all His miracles and teaching, Who art Thou? What is Christ’s answer? From the beginning I speak with you; as if to say, Ye do not deserve to…
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Above He said, I judge no man; but, I judge not, is one thing, I have to judge, another. I judge not, He says, with reference to the present time. But the other, I have many things to say, and to judge of you, refers…
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He says this, that they may not think that He allows them to talk against Him with impunity, from inability to punish them; or that He is not alive to their contemptuous designs.
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Or having said, I have many things to say, and to judge of you, thus reserving His judgment for a future time, He adds, But He that sent Me is true: as if to say, Though ye are unbelievers, My Father is true, Who…
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Or thus: As My Father hath sent Me not to judge the world, but to save the world, and My Father is true, I accordingly judge no man now; but speak thus for your salvation, not your condemnation: And I speak to the…
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And to hear from the Father is the same as to be from the Father; He has the hearing from the same sense that He has the being.
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The coequal Son gives glory to the Father: as if to say, I give glory to Him whose Son I am: how proudly thou detractest from Him, whose servant Thou art.
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They did not understand however what He meant by saying, He is true that sent Me: they understand not that He spake to them of the Father. For they had not the eyes of their mind yet opened, to understand the…
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity V.13.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity V.13.
Cited together in The City of God XI.32.
Cited together in The City of God XI.32.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 39.
Cited together in The City of God XI.32.
Cited together in The City of God XI.32.
Cited together in The City of God X.23.
Cited together in Confessions XI.8.
Cited together in The City of God X.23.
Cited together in The City of God X.23.
Cited together in The City of God X.23.
Cited together in The City of God X.23.
Cited together in The City of God X.23.