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Saint Augustine: Tractates on the Gospel of John 11–27 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Of the 124 tractates that St. Augustine delivered to his congregation at Hippo Regius, the first fifty-four form a distinct group. They differ in length and character from the remaining tractates, contain many chronological references, and consist of bitter attacks on the Donatists and other heresies. The remaining tractates (55–124) are brief and contain no chronological references to prior...

was their justice? [That] by which they put confidence in their own strength and spoke of themselves as if they were the fulfillers of the Law from their own power. (3) But no one fulfills the Law except he whom grace, that is, the bread which comes down from heaven, has helped. For, as the Apostle says briefly, “Love is the fulfillment of the Law,”4 not love of money, but of God, not love of earth, not of heaven, but of him who made heaven and earth.5 Whence is this love for man? Let us hear him.
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