26. With the perfect knowledge just promised they will discern what may be asked in His name (see on John 14:13): cognitio parit orationem. The οὐ λέγω does not mean ‘I need not say, for of course I shall do so;’ which does not harmonize with John 16:27. The meaning rather is, that so long as through the power of the Advocate they have direct communion with the Father in Christ’s name, there is no need to speak of Christ’s intercession. But this communion may be interrupted by sin, and then Christ becomes their Advocate (1 John 2:1; Romans 8:34). Note the emphatic ἐγώ. On ἐρωτᾶν see on John 14:6.

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