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Origen
Catena Aurea · Johannesevangelium 1
Joh 1, 1English original
In the beginning was the Word,
(Hom. ii. divers. loc.) The verb to be, has a double signification, sometimes expressing the motions which take place in time, as other verbs do; sometimes the substance of that one thing of which it is predicated, without reference to time. Hence it is also called a substantive verb.