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commentary entry

xi.iv.xiv-p27.2

xi.iv.xiv-p27.247 words

14. If I then—the Lord.

have washed your feet—the servants'.

ye—but fellow servants.

ought to wash one another's feet—not in the narrow sense of a literal washing, profanely caricatured by popes and emperors, but by the very humblest real services one to another.