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Annotation CLXXVI, On the Son, and the Holy Spirit (John 1:5)

“The light shineth in darkness.”

Annotation CLXXVI

”The light shineth in darkness.” — John 1:5

On the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Origen, in the second tome on John, seems in a certain way to number the Son and the Holy Spirit among those [things] which were made, when he says: “If anyone should consider the multitude of the contemplations which are in God, and of the knowledge which cannot be comprehended by human nature — and perhaps by the others which were made, besides Christ and the Holy Spirit — he will understand that darkness surrounds God.”

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Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation CLXXVI, On the Son, and the Holy Spirit (John 1:5),” in Annotations on the New Testament, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta-nt/178-annotation-clxxvi-on-the-son-and-the-holy-spirit-john-1-5/.

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