Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series • VOLUME 7
Augustine — Homilies on John & First John
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Chapter XV. 23.
Chapter XV. 23. 1. The Lord says, as you have just been hearing, "He that hateth me, hateth my Father also:" and yet He had said a little before, "These things will they do unto you, because they know not Him that sent me." A question therefore arises that cannot be overlooked, how they can hate one whom they know not? For if i…
1,426 wordsSECTION 162Chapter XV. 24, 25.
Chapter XV. 24, 25. 1. The Lord had said, "He that hateth me, hateth my Father also." For of a certainty he that hateth the truth must also hate Him of whom the truth is born; on which subject we have already spoken, as we were granted ability. And then He added the words on which we have now to discourse: "If I had not done am…
1,478 wordsSECTION 163Chapter XV. 26, 27.
Chapter XV. 26, 27. 1. The Lord Jesus, in the discourse which He addressed to His disciples after the supper, when Himself in immediate proximity to His passion, and, as it were, on the eve of departure, and of depriving them of His bodily presence while continuing His spiritual presence to all His disciples till the very end o…
1,305 wordsSECTION 164Chapter XVI. 1-4.
Chapter XVI. 1-4. 1. In the words preceding this chapter of the Gospel, the Lord strengthened His disciples to endure the hatred of their enemies, and prepared them also by His own example to become the more courageous in imitating Him: adding the promise, that the Holy Spirit should come to bear witness of Him, and also that t…
2,228 wordsSECTION 165Chapter XVI. 4-7.
[1511] Ps. xix. 4. [1512] Chap. xv. 20. [1513] Ps. cxix. 165. [1514] Rom. v. 5. [1515] Rom. xi. 17. [1516] Chap. xii. 42, 43. [1517] Chap. v. 44. [1518] Rom. x. 3. [1519] Ps. lxxxix. 15-17. [1520] Rom. x. 2, 3. [1521] Indicativo modo. [1522] Chap. xii. 19. [1523] Chap. xi. 48, 50. [1524] Chap. xv. 20. [1525] Rom. x…
1,920 wordsSECTION 166Chapter XVI. 8-11.
Chapter XVI. 8-11. 1. The Lord, when promising that He would send the Holy Spirit, said, "When He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment." What does it mean? Is it that the Lord Jesus Christ did not reprove the world of sin, when He said, "If I had not come and spoken unto them, they ha…
2,200 wordsSECTION 167Chapter XVI. 12, 13.
[1540] Chap. xvii. 25. [1541] Matt. xxv. 41. [1542] Acts i. 7, 8. [1543] 2 Cor. xiii. 3. [1544] Rom. v. 5. [1545] 1 John iv. 18. [1546] Tract. XX. [1547] Eccles. vii. 20, 16. [1548] Eph. v. 13. [1549] Chap. xx. 29. [1550] Rom. i. 17; Hab. ii. 4; and Heb. xi. 1. [1551] Sperantium substantia. [1552] 1 Cor. xv. 8. [155…
2,459 wordsSECTION 168Chapter XVI. 12, 13 (continued).
[1562] Chap. xv. 15. [1563] Isa. xlv. 11, Septuagint. [1564] Chap. xiii. 36-38. [1565] Rom. v. 5. [1566] Odegesei humas eis ten aletheian pasan, or en te aletheia pase [1567] Ps. lxxxvi. 11. [1568] Chap. vi. 45. [1569] Matt. xviii. 10. [1570] Wisd. ix. 15. [1571] 2 Cor. i. 22. [1572] 1 Cor. xiii. 9, 12. [1573] Eph. v.…
2,251 wordsSECTION 169Chapter XVI. 12, 13 (continued).
[1577] 2 Cor. i. 22. [1578] 1 Cor. ii. 9. [1579] 1 Cor. iii. 6. [1580] Prov. ix. 13-17, according to the Septuagint, where, in verse 13, phtyvt is rendered endees psomou, "in want of a morsel of bread," as if from pht or phtvt, a morsel. The form of the word, however, as well as the Masoretic pointing, shows its connection wi…
2,281 wordsSECTION 1706. But let us be far from supposing that there is any contrariety between this milk and the food of spiritual things that has to be received
6. But let us be far from supposing that there is any contrariety between this milk and the food of spiritual things that has to be received by the sound understanding, and which was wanting to the Colossians and Thessalonians, and had still to be supplied. For the supply of the deficiency implies no disapproval of that which ex…
1,511 wordsSECTION 171Chapter XVI. 13.
Chapter XVI. 13. 1. What is this that the Lord said of the Holy Spirit, when promising that He would come and teach His disciples all truth, or guide them into all truth: "For He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak"? For this is similar to what He said of Himself, "I can of mine own sel…
2,333 wordsSECTION 1725. And be not disturbed by the fact that the verb is put in the future tense. For it is not said, whatsoever He hath heard, or, whatsoever H
5. And be not disturbed by the fact that the verb is put in the future tense. For it is not said, whatsoever He hath heard, or, whatsoever He heareth; but, "whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak." For such hearing is everlasting, because the knowing is everlasting. But in the case of what is eternal, without beginning an…
1,799 wordsSECTION 173Chapter XVI. 13-15 (continued).
Chapter XVI. 13-15 (continued). 1. When our Lord gave the promise of the coming of His Holy Spirit, He said, "He shall teach you all truth," or, as we read in some copies, "He shall guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak." On these Gospel words we have alre…
1,900 wordsSECTION 174Chapter XVI. 16-23.
Chapter XVI. 16-23. 1. These words of the Lord, when He says, "A little while, and ye shall no more see me: and again a little while, and ye shall see me; because I go to the Father," were so obscure to the disciples, before what He thus says was actually fulfilled, that they inquired among themselves what it was that He said, …
2,107 wordsSECTION 175Chapter XVI. 23-28.
Chapter XVI. 23-28. 1. We have now to consider these words of the Lord, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, If ye shall ask anything of the Father in my name, He will give it you." It has already been said in the earlier portions of this discourse of our Lord's, on account of those who ask some things of the Father in Christ's nam…
2,201 wordsSECTION 176Chapter XVI. 29-33.
[1687] 1 John iv. 19. [1688] Rom. v. 5. Tractate CIII. Chapter XVI. 29-33. 1. The inward state of Christ's disciples, when before His passion He talked with them as with children of great things, but in such a way as befitted the great things to be spoken to children, because, having not yet received the Holy Spirit, as they…
1,804 wordsSECTION 177Chapter XVII. 1.
Chapter XVII. 1. 1. Before these words, which we are now, with the Lord's help, to make the subject of discourse, Jesus had said, "These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace;" which we are to consider as referring, not to the later words uttered by Him immediately before, but to all that He had addresse…
1,753 wordsSECTION 178Chapter XVII. 1-5.
Chapter XVII. 1-5. 1. That the Son was glorified by the Father in His form of a servant, which the Father raised from the dead and set at His own right hand, is indicated by the event itself, and is nowhere doubted by the Christian. But as He not only said, "Father, glorify Thy Son," but likewise added, "that Thy Son may glorif…
2,414 wordsSECTION 179Chapter XVII. 6-8.
8. But perhaps we shall have some fear in saying that He was predestinated, because the apostle seems to have said so only in reference to our being made conformable to His image. As if, indeed, any one, faithfully considering the rule of faith, were to deny that the Son of God was predestinated, who yet cannot deny that He was …
2,230 wordsSECTION 1805. But what are we to make of the words, "Whom Thou gavest me out of the world"? For it is said of them that they were not of the world. But
5. But what are we to make of the words, "Whom Thou gavest me out of the world"? For it is said of them that they were not of the world. But this they attained to by regeneration, and not by generation. And what, also, of that which follows, "Thine they were, and Thou gavest them me"? Was there a time when they belonged to the F…
1,344 wordsSECTION 181Chapter XVII. 9-13.
Chapter XVII. 9-13. 1. When the Lord was speaking to the Father of those whom He already had as disciples, He said this also among other things: "I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for those whom Thou hast given me." By the world, He now wishes to be understood those who live according to the lust of the word, and s…
2,043 wordsSECTION 182Chapter XVII. 14-19.
Chapter XVII. 14-19. 1. While the Lord is still speaking to the Father, and praying for His disciples, He says: "I have given them Thy saying; and the world hath hated them." That hatred they had not yet experienced in those sufferings of their own, which afterwards overtook them; but He speaks thus in His usual way, foretellin…
1,369 wordsSECTION 183Chapter XVII. 20.
Chapter XVII. 20. 1. The Lord Jesus, in the now close proximity of His passion, after praying for His disciples, whom He also named apostles, with whom He had partaken of that last supper from which His betrayer had taken his departure on being revealed by the sop of bread, and with whom, after the latter's departure, and befor…
2,108 wordsSECTION 184Chapter XVII. 21-23.
Chapter XVII. 21-23. 1. After the Lord Jesus had prayed for His disciples whom He had with Him at the time, and had conjoined with them others who were also His own, by saying, "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also who shall believe on me through their word," as if we were inquiring what or wherefore He prayed for …
2,423 wordsSECTION 1855. In close relation to these come also His further words: "And Thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me." That is to say, in the Son the
5. In close relation to these come also His further words: "And Thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me." That is to say, in the Son the Father loveth us, because in Him He hath chosen us before the foundation of the world. [1771] For He who loveth the Only-begotten, certainly loveth also His members which, through His in str…
1,483 wordsSECTION 186Chapter XVII. 24-26.
Chapter XVII. 24-26. 1. The Lord Jesus raises up His people to a great hope, than which there could not possibly be a greater. Listen and rejoice in hope, that, since the present is not a life to be loved, but to be tolerated, you may have the power of patient endurance amid all its tribulation. [1777] Listen, I say, and weigh …
2,447 wordsSECTION 1874. How, then, shall we not be with Christ where He is, when we shall be with Him in the Father in whom He is? On this, also, the apostle is
4. How, then, shall we not be with Christ where He is, when we shall be with Him in the Father in whom He is? On this, also, the apostle is not without something to say to us, although we are not yet in possession of the reality, but only cherishing the hope. For he says, "If ye be risen with Christ, seek those things which are …
1,027 wordsSECTION 188Chapter XVIII. 1-12.
Chapter XVIII. 1-12. 1. When the grand and lengthened discourse was concluded which the Lord delivered after supper, and on the eve of shedding His blood for us, to the disciples who were then with Him, and had added the prayer addressed to His Father, the evangelist John began thereafter the narrative of His passion in these w…
1,839 wordsSECTION 189Chapter XVIII. 13-27.
Chapter XVIII. 13-27. 1. After that His persecutors had, through the treason of Judas, taken and bound the Lord, who loved us, and gave Himself for us, [1813] and whom the Father spared not, but gave Him up for us all: [1814] that we may understand that there was no praise due to Judas for the usefulness of his treachery, but d…
2,347 wordsSECTION 190Chapter XVIII. 28-32.
[1813] Eph. v. 2. [1814] Rom. viii. 32. [1815] Matt. xxvi. 57. [1816] Chap. xiii. 23, and xix. 26. [1817] Chap. xiii. 37. [1818] Matt. xxvi. 34. [1819] Acts xi. 26. [1820] Matt. xvi. 19. [1821] Chap. xvi. 25. [1822] Deut. xix. 15. [1823] Matt. x. 27. [1824] Mark. iv. 12. [1825] Ps. xlv. 4. In the Hebrew text, at the …
1,913 wordsSECTION 191Chapter XVIII. 33-40.
Chapter XVIII. 33-40. 1. What Pilate said to Christ, or what He replied to Pilate, has to be considered and handled in the present discourse. For after the words had been addressed to the Jews, "Take ye him, and judge him according to your law," and the Jews had replied, "It is not lawful for us to put any man to death, Pilate …
2,256 wordsSECTION 192Chapter XIX. 1-16.
[1846] 2 Thess. iii. 2. [1847] Chap. xiv. 6. [1848] Chap. viii. 18. [1849] Rom. viii. 28. [1850] 2 Tim. i. 8, 9. Tractate CXVI. Chapter XIX. 1-16. 1. On the Jews crying out that they did not wish Jesus to be released unto them at the passover, but Barabbas the robber; not the Saviour, but the murderer; not the Giver of li…
2,200 wordsSECTION 193Chapter XIX. 17-22.
[1858] Parasceve; Greek, paraskeue. [1859] Mark xv. 25. [1860] See below, Tract. CXVII. secs. 1, 2. [1861] Chap. xviii. 31. [1862] Chap. xix. 23. Tractate CXVII. Chapter XIX. 17-22. 1. On Pilate's judgment and condemnation before the tribunal, they took the Lord Jesus Christ, about the sixth hour, and led Him away. "And H…
1,942 wordsSECTION 194Chapter XIX. 23, 24.
Chapter XIX. 23, 24. 1. The things that were done beside the Lord's cross, when at length He was now crucified, we would take up, in dependence on His help, in the present discourse. "Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Him, took His garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also His coat: now the coat …
2,128 wordsSECTION 195Chapter XIX. 24-30.
Chapter XIX. 24-30. 1. The Lord being now crucified, and the parting of His garments having also been completed by the casting of the lot, let us look at what the evangelist John thereafter relates. "And these things," he says, "the soldiers did. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary [t…
1,697 wordsSECTION 196Chapter XIX. 31-42, and XX. 1-9.
Chapter XIX. 31-42, and XX. 1-9. 1. After that the Lord Jesus had accomplished all that He foreknew required accomplishment before His death, and had, when it pleased Himself, given up the ghost, what followed thereafter, as related by the evangelist, let us now consider. "The Jews therefore," he says, "because it was the prepa…
1,865 wordsSECTION 197Chapter XX. 10-29.
Chapter XX. 10-29. 1. Mary Magdalene had brought the news to His disciples, Peter and John, that the Lord was taken away from the sepulchre; and they, when they came thither, found only the linen clothes wherewith the body had been shrouded; and what else could they believe but what she had told them, and what she had herself a…
2,437 wordsSECTION 198Chapter XX. 30-31, and XXI. 1-11.
[1923] Ps. lxviii. 4. [1924] Luke xxiv. 39. [1925] Matt. xxviii. 9. [1926] Isa. xxvi. 3, margin. Tractate CXXII. Chapter XX. 30-31, and XXI. 1-11. 1. After telling us of the incident in connection with which the disciple Thomas had offered to his touch the places of the wounds in Christ's body, and saw what he would not be…
2,792 wordsSECTION 1998. For if we determine on the number that should indicate the law, what else can it be but ten? For we have absolute certainty that the Deca
8. For if we determine on the number that should indicate the law, what else can it be but ten? For we have absolute certainty that the Decalogue of the law, that is, those ten well-known precepts, were first written by the finger of God on two tables of stone. [1938] But the law, when it is not aided by grace, maketh transgress…
1,640 wordsSECTION 200Chapter XXI. 12-19.
Chapter XXI. 12-19. 1. With this third manifestation of Himself by the Lord to His disciples after His resurrection, the Gospel of the blessed Apostle John is brought to a close, of which we have already lectured through the earlier part as we were able, on to the place where it is related that an hundred and fifty-three fishes…
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