Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 John 3:13

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 7, page 491, footnote 6 (Image)

Augustine: Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on the First Epistle of John, Soliloquies

Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John. (HTML)

1 John III. 9–18. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2270 (In-Text, Margin)

9. “Marvel not, brethren, if the world hate us.”[1 John 3:13] Must one often be telling you what “the world” means? Not the heaven, not the earth, nor these visible works which God made; but lovers of the world. By often saying these things, to some I am burdensome: but I am so far from saying it without a cause, that some may be questioned whether I said it, and they cannot answer. Let then, even by thrusting it upon them, something stick fast in the hearts of them that hear. What is “the world”? The world, when put in a bad ...