NEW TESTAMENT

John 4:38

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38

I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

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Verse 38. By these words our Saviour testifies to his disciples, that the prophets had sown the seed in order to bring men to believe in Christ. This was the end of the law, this the fruit which the prophets looked for to crown their labours. He likewise shews that he himself that sent them, likewise sent the prophets before them; and that the Old and New Testament are of the same origin, and have the same design. Saint John Chrysostom ex S. Thoma.

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