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The Church Fathers · c. 406–420

Homilies on the Gospel of John

Augustine of Hippo · 354–430

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What it is

A hundred and twenty-four sermons through the fourth gospel, including the great treatment of the woman taken in adultery and the repeated call to love and do what you will.

Why it lasted

The finest sustained preaching of the Latin fathers and the principal Western commentary on John for a thousand years.

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123 sections · complete, from In Evangelium Joannis Tractatus CXXIV (stoa0040.stoa069.opp-lat1).

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