Saint Augustine: Tractates on the Gospel of John, 112–24; Tractates on the First Epistle of John (Biblia.com)

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In this volume, which concludes John W. Rettig’s translation of St. Augustine’s Tractates on the Gospel of John, Augustine applies his keen insight and powers of rhetoric to the sacred text, drawing the audience into an intimate contemplation of Jesus through the course of his Passion, Death, and Resurrection. Augustine clarifies the meaning of words and phrases (often appealing to the Greek...

in loving back. He loved us first; not thus do we love. He loved the wicked, but he destroyed wickedness; he loved the wicked, but he did not assemble them for wickedness. He loved the sick, but he visited them to heal them. Therefore, “God is love. In this was manifested the love of God in us because he has sent his only-begotten Son into this world that we may live by him.” As the Lord himself said, “Greater love no one can have than that he lay down his life for his friends,”19 and there Christ’s

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