ACC ~ John 8 v41a

OUR FRUIT SHOWS WHOSE CHILDREN WE ARE

ORIGEN: In so far as we commit sins, we have not as yet put off the generation of the devil, even if we are thought to believe in Jesus. Consequently Jesus says to those Jews who have believed, “You do the works of your father,” “father” meaning the devil because of the statement “You are of your father the devil.” Now, if everyone “who commits sin is of the devil,” [1] everyone who is not of the devil does not commit sin. In addition, if “the reason the Son of God appeared was that he might destroy the works of the devil,” [2] to the extent that he has not yet destroyed the works of the devil in us, because we have not presented ourselves to him who destroys the works of the devil, we have not as yet put aside being children of the devil, since it is our fruits that show whose sons we are. COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 20.103-5. [3]

[1] 1 Jn 3:8.

[2] 1 Jn 3:8.

[3] FC 89:228; SC 290:208-10.