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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....

knock. May He then open to us and you, Who deigned so to exhort that He said, Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For thee is Jesus wearied from His journey.* We find a Jesus Who is Power, we find also a Jesus Who is weak: a strong and a weak Jesus: strong, because In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God: the Same was in the beginning with God. Wouldest thou see how this Son of God is strong? All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made:
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