″ Amen, amen I say to you; that Ro. 6, 16. 2. Pet. 2, 19.* every one which committeth sinne, is the servant of sinne. 35And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: the sonne abideth for ever. 36If therfore the Sonne make you free, you shal be [1] free indeed. 37I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seeke to kil me, because my word taketh not in you. 38I speake that which I have seen with my Father: and you doe the things that you have seen with your Father. 39They answered, and said to him: Our Father is Abraham. Jesus saith to them: If you be the children of Abraham, [2] doe the workes of Abraham. 40But now, you seeke to kil me, a man that have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This did not Abraham. 41You doe the workes of your Father. They said therfore to him: We were not borne of fornication. We have one Father, God. 42Jesus therfore said to them: If God were your Father: verily you would love me. For from God I proceeded, and came: for I came not of my self, but he sent me. 43Why doe you not know my speach? Because you can not heare my word. 44You are of your father the Divel, and the desires of your father you wil doe. He was a [3] man-killer from the beginning, and he stood not in the veritie; because veritie is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his owne, because he is a lyer, and the father thereof. 45But because I say the veritie, you beleeve me not. 46Which of you shal argue me of sinne? If I say the veritie, why doe you not beleeve me? 47He that is of God, heareth the wordes of God. Therfore you heare not, because you are not of God. 48The Jewes therfore answered, and said to him, Doe not we say wel that thou art a Samaritane, and hast a Diuel? 49Jesus answered: [4] I have no Diuel: but I doe honour my Father, and you have dishonoured me. 50But I seeke not mine owne glorie. There is that seeketh and judgeth.
The Ghospel upon Passion Sunday.51Amen, amen I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shal not see death for ever. 52The Jewes therfore said: Now we have knowen that thou hast a Diuel. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets; and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shal not tast death for ever. 53Why, art thou greater then our father Abraham, who is dead? and the Prophets are dead. Whom doest thou make thy self? 54Jesus answered: If I doe glorifie my self, my glorie is nothing. It is my father that glorifieth me, whom you say that he is your God. 55And you have not knowen him, but I know him. And if I shal say that I know him not, I shal be like to you, a lyer. But I doe know him, and doe keepe his word. 56Abraham your father rejoyced that he might see my day: and he saw, and was glad. 57The Jewes therfore said to him: Thou hast not yet fiftie yeares, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say to you, before that Abraham was made I am. 59They tooke stones therfore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.✠
- ↑ Man was never without free wil: but having the grace of Christ, his wil is truly made free (as S. Augustine saith) from servitude of sinne also. tract 41. in Evang Jo.
- ↑ Not only faith but good workes also make men the children of Abraham according as S. James also speaketh of Abrahams workes. c. 2.
- ↑ S. Augustin compareth Heretikes in their spiritual murder by driving Christian men out of the Church to the divel that drove our parents out of Paradise. Cont lit. Petil. li. 2. c. 13.
- ↑ He denieth not that he is a Samaritane, because he is our keeper or protectour, as the word signifieth; and because he is indeed that merciful Samaritane in the parable of the wounded man. Luc. 10, 33. Augu. tract. 43 in Joan.
