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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...

of course, he incurs that for which he says, “Forgive us our debts.”6 And so from that too he is cleansed by him who washed their feet for his disciples and who does not cease to intercede for us.7 In connection with this there came to mind from the Song of Songs the words of the Church, saying, “I have washed my feet; how shall I soil them?”8 when she wanted to go and to open to him who had come to her and had knocked, and had demanded that it be opened to him, the one beautiful in form beyond the
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