I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
” Because indeed John preached repentance, he wore the marks of repentance in his garment and in his food. Wherefore there follow, “And John was clothed in camel’s hair.”.
Vict. Ant.e Cat. in Marc.: But lest he should be thought to say this by way of comparing himself to Christ, he subjoins, “Of whom I am not worthy "It is not however the same thing to loose the shoe-latchet, which Mark here says, and to carry his shoes, which Matthew says. And indeed the Evangelists following the order of the narrative, and notable to err in any thing, say that John spoke each of these sayings in adifferent sense. But commentators on this passage have expounded each in adifferent way. For he means by the latchet, the tie of the shoe. He says this therefore to extol the excellence of the power of Christ, and the greatness of His divinity; as if he said, Not even in the station of his servant am I worthy to be reckoned. For it is a great thing to contemplate, asit were stooping down, those things which belong to the body of Christ, and tosee from below the image of things above, and to untie each of those mysteries, about the Incarnation of Christ, which cannot be unravelled.
