Commentaries on John (in catenae) 1 Jo 1, 1 In the beginning was the Word, without beginning, he says, according to time, and the Word was with God, a

 time, the impassible, that from such a father, this is of the same substance. The Father was God with whom the Son was, and the Word who was with the

 by an artistic work, as providing in that which is provided for. 9 Jo 1, 11 How did he who is always everywhere and present in the world come to his o

 Jo 1, 15 He was always first, for he is by nature God and Son of God, but I am his slave and herald. This one was indeed always first, but he comes af

 gestures of honor and great words, or rather where there is a profit of a little money, the temple or the law is nothing but where there is the great

 and little by little she progressed, so that she not only confessed [him as] Messiah and Christ, but also preached to the city and her homeland and in

 for the Father judges no one, would have given the suspicion that he himself abdicated his authority. But for this reason he places the gave, so t

 according to human opinion and judgment, his testimony is not true. Therefore the Lord also, indicating this in response to their opinion, said: 'If I

 to be instructed and to be benefited. 42 Jo 6, 6 Or testing is said instead of exercising him, stirring up his thoughts and leading him toward the

 leading us up to the teaching of the Father, you send us back again to yourself, if indeed you have seen and you are about to unfold the Father’s teac

 Declaring the multitude and magnitude of the gifts, he calls them rivers. Therefore, no one, neither of the ancient prophets nor of the disciples then

 of cities, in which he also had relatives, he did not rise up for the destruction of the angels he saw typically and iconically as they were proceedin

 For that one, he says, was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. And who else, he says, is s

 the clay was used for another reason than what has been said, in order to demonstrate very clearly that He Himself also formed Adam from clay. Moreove

 something humble and human about him, so that the weak hearer may not fall away or the evildoer find an occasion for wickedness, he runs back again to

 He said to the disciples concerning the Greeks who wanted to see him: that the hour has come, that the Son of Man might be glorified. 74 Jo 12, 27 To

 I did not expect that anyone would ever come to such madness and ingratitude and foulness, so as to repay his benefactor with murder and betrayal afte

 but the Jews, ending their life, were sent away to death and punishment. Therefore He says: And where I go, you cannot come. But to them He speaks thu

 you sought to see with bodily eyes, but looking at the flesh, which I willingly took up on your behalf, you have seen nothing lofty nor worthy of my d

 the discourses already being about to cease. 90 Jo 15, 9-11 I have spoken these things to you which things are these? that as the Father has loved me

 A tribunal had its beginning in that city in which the audacious act of murder was also committed. And the refutation came not through words, but thro

 to the Son. And this the blessed Paul also proclaimed, saying: according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret for long ages with this glory t

 in the Father, that is, consubstantial. Why then did He not say, 'as You, Father, are to Me and I to You,' but with the preposition? Most of all, He a

 take and kill? He said, take and judge. But were they not prepared for the murder of the Master, and were they not intoxicated with rage and envy, so

 he was about to show, leading them again through this to a higher estimation. 114 Jo 21, 17 Since he asked him a third time, making the question equal

he was about to show, leading them again through this to a higher estimation. 114 Jo 21, 17 Since he asked him a third time, making the question equal in number to the denial, coming to the memory of that he was grieved, both thinking this very thing <about> that and fearing about the future, lest perhaps something of the sort should befall him. Because of which he was also greatly grieved; for if it were not great, the evangelist would not have mentioned the grief, but as something that was great and worthy of not being passed over in silence. He was grieved therefore and his thoughts were troubled, being tossed by the triple waves from despondency. Wherefore he also flees to the only unswept harbor of calm and says, "You, Lord, know all things, you know that I love you." But the Master, both by saying again, "Feed my sheep," and by what followed, wiped away all his grief and despondency.

ἔμελλεν ἐπιδείκνυσθαι κἀκείνους αὖ διὰ ταύτης εἰς ὑψηλοτέραν ἄγων ὑπόληψιν. 114 Jo 21, 17 Ἐπειδὴ τρίτον ἠρώτησεν αὐτὸν ἰσάριθμον τῇ ἀρνήσει ποιούμενος τὴν ἐρώτησιν, εἰς ἀνάμνησιν ἐκείνης ἐλθὼν ἐλυπήθη καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦτο <περὶ> ἐκείνης ἐννοήσας καὶ περὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος δεδοικὼς ὡς μή τι ἄρα τοιοῦτον αὐτῷ ἐπισυμπέσῃ. δι' ὃ καὶ σφόδρα ἐλυπήθη· οὐ γὰρ ἂν εἰ μὴ σφόδρα, ἐμέμνητο λύπης ὁ εὐαγγελιστής, ἀλλ' ὡς πολλῆς γεγενημένης καὶ τοῦ μὴ σιγηθῆναι ἀξίας. ἐλυπήθη οὖν καὶ συνεταράχθη τοὺς λογισμοὺς ταῖς ἀπὸ τῆς ἀθυμίας τρικυμίαις κλυδωνιζόμενος. διὸ καὶ πρὸς μόνον τὸν ἄκλυστον τῆς γαλήνης λιμένα καταφεύγει καὶ σύ, φησίν, κύριε, πάντα οἶδας, σὺ γινώσκεις, ὅτι φιλῶ σε. ὁ δὲ δεσπότης καὶ διὰ τοῦ πάλιν εἰπεῖν βόσκε τὰ πρόβατά μου καὶ διὰ τῶν ἐφεξῆς πᾶσαν αὐτοῦ τὴν λύπην καὶ ἀθυμίαν ἀπετρίψατο.