1-31 CHAPTER 14 _Let not your heart_, &c. Christ saw that the minds of His disciples were troubled, _i.e_. anxious and sorrowful, because He had foretold them that His own departure and Passion, through the treachery of Judas, was at hand, as well as the scandal of Peter's threefold denial of Him.... [ Continue Reading ]
_If ye had known Me_, &c. Christ meets an objection. The disciples might have objected, "Thou, 0 Christ, declarest that Thou art the _way_, but the Father is the _goal_ to which thou goest. But we do not know the Father, wherefore neither do we know the goal to which both Thou and we are going. Caus... [ Continue Reading ]
_Believe ye not that I am in the Father_, &c. Observe 1. Here again the distinction of the Divine Persons is signified. Nor is any one properly said to be in himself, but in another. 2. The oneness of the Divine Nature is signified. For because the Father and the Son are, and exist in one and the sa... [ Continue Reading ]
_If ye shall ask anything in My Name, I will do it._ What Christ in the last verse said of the Father He here says of Himself, that He may show that He is the same God with the Father, that He hears those who pray to Him, and that He doeth all things which the Father doeth. Whence S. Cyril asserts t... [ Continue Reading ]
_If ye love Me_, &c. Christ here takes His farewell of His disciples, gives His last commands, which pertain to the exercise of the three chief theological virtues, faith, hope, and charity. Concerning _faith_ He speaks in the 1st verse, _Ye believe in God_, &c. Concerning _hope_ in the 3d, _Whatsoe... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will not leave you orphans_, &c. Forasmuch as Christ called His disciples _sons_, He now says to them,. _will not leave you orphans_, i.e., without a Father. Because, although I am going away from you to the Father, I will send you another Comforter in My stead. It is not that going away I will d... [ Continue Reading ]
_Yet a little while_, &c. But a short period of life remains to Me, only a few hours, after which I shall die upon the cross, and be withdrawn from this world; but ye shall see Me, because the third day I shall rise from the dead, and show Myself to you. This is the literal meaning. Tropologically,... [ Continue Reading ]
_In that day ye shall know that I am in My Father_, &c. After I have risen again, and ascended into heaven, and sent you the Holy Ghost, ye shall by His illumination know these three things more clearly and certainly, viz., that I am in the Father, by the unity of the Divine Essence, that is to say,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Judas saith unto him_, &c. This was Thaddæus, the brother of James the less, the author of the Epistle of Jude. _Wherefore is it_? The Vulg. has _quid factum_? which is a literal rendering of the Hebrew expression _me haia, i.e., why was it_? When Jesus said, _The world seeth Me not, but ye see Me_... [ Continue Reading ]