That day
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
The verse
“Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.”Hebrews 4:16 · 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.