John 8:42 (WEB)
Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
Fathers and councils · 18
Tertullian
“…man that hath told you the truth which I have heard of God;” and again, “If God were your Father, ye would love me, for I proceeded forth and came from God,” (still they are not hereby separated, although He declares that He proceeded forth from the Father.” — editor's note: Ver. 42.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Since, then, the Father is well pleased in the Son; believe that the Son is worthy of the Father, that He came out from God, as He Himself bears witness, saying: “I went out from God, and am come;” and again: “I went out from God.”” — editor's note: S. John viii. 42.
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John Chrysostom
““He that sent Me is greater than I,” and, “I came not of Myself.” ( John xii. 49; xiv. 28; viii. 42.)” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“This, we may now say, is said according to the form of a servant, in the same way as it is said, “I judge no man.”” — editor's note: John viii. 42, 15
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John Cassian
“For the same Person says this to Christians by His Apostle, who had Himself said something very like it to Jews in the gospel, when He said: “But now ye seek to kill me, a man, who have spoken the truth to you, which I heard of God: for I am not come of Myself, but He sent me.”” — editor's note: S. John viii. 40, 42.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“But let them listen to the reproof which the Son inflicts upon unbelievers for their want of this knowledge, when the Jews said that God was their Father:—If God were your Father, ye would surely love Me; for I went forth from God, and am come; neither am I come of Myself, but He sent Me.” — editor's note: St. John viii. 42.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The Jews had begun to understand that our Lord was not speaking of sonship according to the flesh, but of manner of life. Scripture often speaks of spiritual fornication, with many gods, and of the soul being…
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As if their motive against Him was a desire to avenge God’s honour.
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Or their sonship to Abraham having been disproved, they reply by bitterly insinuating, that our Saviour was the offspring of adultery. But perhaps the tone of the answer is disputatious, more than any thing else. For…
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But what say ye? Have ye God for your Father, and do ye blame Christ for speaking thus? Yet true it was, that many of them were born of fornication, for people then used to form unlawful connexions. But this is not…
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It was not that the Son of God condemned the assumption of so religious a name; that is, condemned them for professing to be the sons of God, and calling God their Father; but that He blamed the rash presumption of…
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This then is the eternal procession, the proceeding forth of the Word from God: from Him It proceeded as the Word of the Father, and came to us: The Word was made flesh. (c. 1:14) His advent is His humanity: His…
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In what follows, He teaches that His origin is not in Himself; Neither came I of Myself, but He sent Me.
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This was said, I think, in allusion to some who came without being sent by the Father, of whom it is said in Jeremiah, I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. (Jer. 23:21) Some, however, use this passage1 to…
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And because they were ever enquiring, What is this which He saith, Whither I go ye cannot come? He adds here, Why do ye not understand My speech? even because ye cannot hear My word.
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And they could not hear, because they would not believe, and amend their lives.
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First then, that virtue must be sought after, which hears the divine word; that by degrees we may be strong enough to embrace the whole teaching of Jesus. For so long as a man has not had his hearing restored by the…
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Origen on John 8:41–43 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Origen on John 8:41–43 (3) (Catena Aurea).