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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...

from this troubledness, assured and confident that even after the dangers of temptations they will dwell before God with Christ. For, although one is braver than another, one wiser than another, “in the Father’s house there are many dwelling-places.” None of them will be kept at a distance from that house where each will deservedly receive a dwelling-place for his own. For that denarius is unvarying for all, which the head of the house orders to be given to all of those who worked in the vineyard,
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