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Difficult Verses: John 12.32
Posted by Joel in Athanasius, Ignatius of Antioch, Irenaeus, John Cassian, Theology on March 2, 2010
In discussing the doctrines of the afterlife, we find difficult verses, one of them being John 12.32. I will try not to draw a conclusion, but simply present information on this verse:
And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.
John Cassian on Friendship
Posted by Joel in John Cassian on August 2, 2009
From John Cassian –
There are many kinds of friendship and companionship which unite men in very different ways in the bonds of love:
For some a previous recommendation makes to enter upon an intercourse first of acquaintance and afterwards even of friendship. In the case of others some bargain or an agreement to give and take something has joined them in the bonds of love. Others a similarity and union of business or science or art or study has united in the chain of friendship, by which even fierce souls become kindly disposed to each other, so that those, who in forests and mountains delight in robbery and revel in human bloodshed, embrace and cherish the partners of their crimes.
