That day
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
The verse
“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.”John 14:6 · 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.