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John: Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators is unavailable, but you can change that!

This Church’s Bible volume on the Gospel of John contains carefully selected and translated homilies and commentaries from such church fathers as Cyril of Alexandria, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory the Great, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Augustine, Athanasius, and the Venerable Bede. Ranging chronologically from the second century to the ninth, these substantial patristic selections provide an...

The source of every disease is pride, because the source of all sins is pride. When a physician deals with an illness and heals merely the symptoms and not the cause itself which was the occasion for the symptom, the disease seems to be cured for a time. However, since the cause remains, it strikes again.… By removing the cause, no more sores can exist. From what source does wickedness come from? From pride. Heal pride, and there will be no wickedness. In order that
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