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Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), Sandro Botticelli

Catena Aurea on Mark 13:3–8: 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 domainMark 13:3–8

In answer to the disciples, the Lord tells them of things which were from that time forth to have their course; whether He meant the destruction of Jerusalem which occasioned their question, or His own coming through the Church, (in which He ever comes even unto the end, for we know that He comes in His own, when His members are born day by day,) or the end itself, in which He will appear to judge the quick and the dead.

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

Also cites: Epist., cxcix, 9

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