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...

my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.”32 Therefore, divine Scripture calls us back within from the showing off of this external appearance outwardly, and from this surface that is shown off before men it calls us back within. Return to your conscience; question it. Attend not to what blossoms on the outside, but to what is the root in the ground. Has lust taken root? There can [then] be the outward appearance of good works, but there cannot truly be good works. Has love

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