[Dieter Bruegmann]

8:30-33. "Many believed on him. Then Jesus said: 'If ye continue...
then ye are my disciples indeed, and the truth shall make you free.' They
answered him: 'We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man.'"

88Rev. 22:11. "He that is righteous, let him be righteous still."

[89]Circumcidentes cor. Rom. 2. "Circumcision is that of the heart."

901 Cor. 15:33. "Evil communications corrupt good manners."

91"What they have found by their curiosity, they have lost by their pride."
Quod curiositate invenerunt, superbia perdiderunt. St. Augustine, Sermon
cxli.

921 Cor. 1:21. "Which... by wisdom knew not... it pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that believe."

93St. Bernard, Sermones in Cantica Canticorum, lxxxiv. "The better one is,
the worse one becomes, if one attributes the cause of this goodness to one's
self."

[94]Ibid. "Meriting blows more than kisses, I fear not, because I love."

95John 11:33. Et turbarit seipsum. "And he troubled himself."

96Matt. 26:46. "Let us be going."

[97]Matt. 18:2. "Jesus went forth."

98Gen. 3:5. "Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."

[99]John 20:17. "Touch me not."

100Allusion to John 6:56; 1:47; 8:36; 6:32. "True disciple; an Israelite
indeed; free indeed; true bread."

101In discipulis meis. Isaiah 8:16. "Seal the law among my disciples."

[102]Is. 45:15.

1031 Cor. 1:17. "Lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect."

104"Rend your heart."

105Ps. 9:14. "Have mercy."

106Is. 5:7. "He has looked for."

107Ezek. 20:25. Praecepta non bona. "Statutes that were not good."

[108]"I will establish my covenant between me and Thee for an everlasting
covenant, to be a God unto Thee."

109Gen.