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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...

manna, many there who pleased the Lord ate it, and they have not died.33 Why? Because they understood the visible food spiritually, they hungered spiritually, they tasted spiritually, that they might be filled spiritually. (2) For we, too, today receive visible food; but the sacrament is one thing, the efficacy of the sacrament another.34 How many receive from the altar and die, and by receiving die? For this reason the Apostle says, “He eats and drinks judgment to himself.”35 For the morsel of the
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