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Saint Augustine: Tractates on the Gospel of John, 112–24; Tractates on the First Epistle of John is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

them, “But to me it was a very small thing to be judged by you or by man’s day.”7 And he himself also shows in a certain place that these things are usually done out of empty boasting, not with the support of love; for when he was speaking in commendable praise of love itself, he said, “If I should distribute all my goods to the poor and deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.”8 Can anyone in fact do this without love? He can. For they who have not love have divided
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