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Homilies on the Gospel according to St. John, and His First Epistle, Vols. 1 & 2: Hom. 1–124, S. John 1–21 and Hom. 1–10, 1 S. John is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the year AD 416, following a long period of preaching on the Psalms, Augustine began a new and extended treatment of John’s first epistle and of the Gospel of John. Volume 1 of Homilies on the Gospel According to St. John and his First Epistle covers the first eight chapters of John’s Gospel, and provides especially illuminating commentary on the unique chapters of John—chapters 1 and 8....

loveth Him: and just that number of times receiveth none other answer of Peter,* than that He is loved; just that number of times giveth none other charge to Peter, than that His sheep be fed. For the thrice denying there is rendered a thrice confessing, that the tongue be not less servant unto love than it had been servant unto fear, nor death imminent seem to have then elicited more of speech, than Life present shall elicit now. Be it the office of love to feed the Lord’s flocka, if it was the
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