Homilies on the Gospel of John 1

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Few ancient Christian authors attempted anything like a complete commentary on the Gospel of John, among them Origen, John Chrysostom and Augustine. Of these, Augustine’s must count as the greatest. Unlike Origen’s, it has come down to us in its entirety, and of the others that remain it is certainly the most theologically profound. John’s gospel allows Augustine to range broadly over themes that...

John 2:1–41 God’s works in nature are more marvelous than his miracles 1. The miracle by which our Lord Jesus Christ made wine out of water is not all that astonishing2 to those who recognize that God was the one who worked it. For the one who made wine on that day at the wedding in those six jars, which he had ordered to be filled with water, does the same thing every year in the vines. I mean, just as what the waiters put in the jars was turned into wine by the work of the Lord, so too

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