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Tractates on the Gospel of John

by Augustine of Hippo

Augustine's 124 sermons and lectures expounding the Gospel of John verse by verse. The commentary on the miraculous catch of fish explains the number 153 as the triangular number of seventeen, a classic example of patristic number symbolism.

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