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Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), Sandro Botticelli

Catena Aurea on John 6:1–14: Augustine of Hippo

Sandro Botticelli, Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), c. 1480 · Ognissanti, Florence · Public domainSandro Botticelli, Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), c. 1480, Ognissanti, Florence

CommentAugustine of HippoPublic domainJohn 6:1–14

Our Lord by breaking, as it were, what was hard in the Law, and opening what was shut, that time when He opened the Scriptures to the disciples after the resurrection, brought the Law out in its full meaning.

Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).

Also cites: lib. lxxxiii. Quæst. qu. 61

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