John 8:30 (WEB)
As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“Were those with Him then, of whom this evangelist John frequently says, “Many believed on Him”?” — editor's note: Chap. ii. 23, iv. 39, vii. 31, viii. 30, x. 42.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
When our Lord said, He is true that sent Me, the Jews did not understand that He spake to them of the Father. But He saw some there, who, He knew, would believe on Him after His passion. Then said Jesus unto them,…
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Or the connection is this: When His miracles and teaching had failed to convert men, He spoke of the cross; When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then ye shall know that I am He: as if to say, Ye think that ye have…
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Or thus: Having said, Then shall ye know that I am, and in this, I am, implied the whole Trinity: lest the Sabellian error should creep in, He immediately adds, And I do nothing of Myself; as if to say, I am not of…
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He gives now a humbler turn to the discourse: And He that sent Me. That this might not be thought however to imply inferiority, He says, Is with Me. The former is His dispensation, the latter His divinity.
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And though both are together, yet one is sent, the other sends. For the mission is the incarnation; and the incarnation is of the Son only, not of the Father. He says then, He that sent Me, meaning, By whose Fatherly…
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Or, He means it as an answer to those who were constantly saying that He was not from God, and that because He did not keep the sabbath; I do always, He says, do those things that please Him; shewing that the…
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 8:28–30 (Catena Aurea).