Imago Dei

That day

Tuesday, 13 June 2006

The verse

“The LORD is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?”
Psalm 27:1 · WEB

From the tradition

“The word is added to the element, and there results the Sacrament, as if itself also a kind of visible word.”

Augustine of Hippo · Tractates on the Gospel of John, Tractate 80, §3

In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. John Gibb and James Innes, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, vol. 7, ed. Philip Schaff (1888)), checked against the source edition.

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