Online ebook: Catena Aurea on St. John’s Gospel, by St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by John Henry Newman

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• Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels, Collected out of the Works of the Fathers by S. Thomas Aquinas: St. John, New Edition (Oxford, London: James Parker, 1874). Available in various formats (pdf, epub, mobi/kindle, etc.) at Open Library and Internet Archive, with a 2^nd copy at Open Library and Internet Archive. Also available at HathiTrust Digital Library.
  • [N.B., The translator is identified to be Blessed John Henry Newman in many sources, including on this page of the collection of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Works in English maintained at the Dominican House of Studies, Priory of the Immaculate Conception.]
• An earlier edition, Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels, Collected out of the Works of the Fathers by S. Thomas Aquinas, Volume IV, St. John (Oxford: John Henry Parker; London: J. Rivington, 1845), 631 pages, is available in various formats at  Internet Archive, with a 2^nd copy at Open Library and Internet Archive; and available in pdf format (on this page) at Saints’ Books. Also available at HathiTrust Digital Library, with a 2^nd copy at HathiTrust Digital Library.
• What is identified as the 1841 edition (the copyright page of which, however, says mccclxv or 1845) is printed in 2 parts.
  • Volume IV, Part I, concerning Chapters i to x of the gospel according to St. John, is available at Internet Archive and Open Library, with a 2^nd copy at Open Library and Internet Archive, along with a 3^rd copy at Open Library and Internet Archive, as well as 4^th copy at Open Library and Internet Archive. It is also available at HathiTrust Digital Library, with a 2^nd copy at HathiTrust Digital Library, and a 3^rd copy at HathiTrust Digital Library; and at Google Books.
  • Volume IV, Part II, concerning chapters xi to xxi, is available online at Internet Archive and Open Library, with a 2^nd copy at Internet Archive and Open Library; and at HathiTrust Digital Library, with a 2^nd copy at HathiTrust Digital Library.
  • The entire 1841 edition may be read online, together with the catenae aureae on the other gospels (1841), through this page at e-Catholic 2000.
• An edition of the work may be read online on this page at the collection St. Thomas Aquinas’ Works in English maintained at the Dominican House of Studies, Priory of the Immaculate Conception; and through this page (together with other commentaries on the gospel according to St. John), beginning with chapter I, at the Aquinas Study Bible.
• An expanded version of the work, with additional Prooemium and bracketed portions translated by Joseph Kenny, O.P., is available on this page (Latin-English parallel texts) at the collection of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Works in English maintained at the Dominican House of Studies, Priory of the Immaculate Conception. It is reproduced through this page, together with the catenae aureae on the other gospels, beginning with the proemium and chapter I, at Biblia Clerus (the contents of which may be downloaded through this page).
• The ebook is offered for sale at Barnes & Noble.

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“It is the same disciple that bears witness of all this and has written the story of it; and we know well that his witness is truthful. There is much else besides that Jesus did; if all of it were put in writing, I do not think the world itself would contain the books which would have to be written.” (St. John xxi, 24-25)