Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to Saint John

Download or read book Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to Saint John written by Saint Augustine of Hippo and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I give heed to what we have just read from the apostolic lesson, that “the natural man perceiveth not the things which are of the Spirit of God,” and consider that in the present assembly, my beloved, there must of necessity be among you many natural men, who know only according to the flesh, and cannot yet raise themselves to spiritual understanding, I am in great difficulty how, as the Lord shall grant, I may be able to express, or in my small measure to explain, what has been read from the Gospel, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;” for this the natural man does not perceive.