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Saint Augustine: Tractates on the Gospel of John 55–111 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the fourth of five volumes of John W. Rettig’s translation of St. Augustine’s Tractates on the Gospel of John. In the Tractates, Augustine progressively comments on the Gospel text, using a plain yet compelling rhetorical style. With the keen insight that makes him one of the glories of the Latin church, he amplifies the orthodox doctrinal and moral lessons to be read therein. Modern...

one” from my approach,27 “my dove” from my Spirit,28 “my perfect one” from my word, which you have learned more fully from your leisure. Open to me; preach me. To those, to be sure, who closed against me, how shall I enter without one who opens? For how shall they hear without one who preaches?29 5. From this it happens that even those who love the leisure of good pursuits and do not wish to suffer the vexations of toilsome activities, because they perceive that they are less suited for administering
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