Imago Dei

That day

Friday, 22 June 2007

The verse

“Oh taste and see that the LORD is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.”
Psalm 34:8 · 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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