John 20:28 and Augustine

Tony Costa tmcos at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 6 18:38:30 EST 2001


Dear Friends,

   I noticed on this list a number of comments on John 20:28 and Augustine's 
commentary on this passage. It must be remembered nevertheless that while 
Augustine was an excellent philosopher and theologian, he was illiterate in 
the biblical languages of Hebrew and Greek (as was Thomas Aquinas later in 
the thirteenth century) unlike his contemporary colleague, Jerome. I 
sometimes wonder whether it is worthwhile to use Augustine in an area in 
which he holds little or no authority from a grammatical point of view...no 
offence to St.Augustine.

                                                  Tony Costa
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