John 14:15 (WEB)
If you love me, keep my commandments.
Fathers and councils · 27
John Chrysostom
““If ye love Me” ( John xiv. 15 ), He declares; He did not say, “work miracles,” but what?” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“John xiv. 15–17” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For when He had said, “Whatsoever ye shall ask I will do it” ( c. xiv. 14, 15 ), He added, “If ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments.”” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And again, “The love of money is the root of all evils; which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith;”and, “He that loveth me, will keep my commandment.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 15. [The paraphrase given above confirms the rendering of the R.V., “If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.”—R.]
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Augustine of Hippo
“For what does He mean by saying, “If ye love me, keep my commandments; and I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,” that is, the lovers of the world?” — editor's note: John xiv. 15–17
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And again: “If ye do the things that I command you, henceforth I call you not servants, but friends.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 15.
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Catena Aurea on John
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Our Lord having said, Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that I will do; that they might not think simply asking would be enough, He adds, If ye love Me, keep My commandments. And then I will do what ye ask, seems…
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Wherein He shews too that He Himself is the Comforter. Paraclete means advocate, and is applied to Christ: We have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. (1 John 2:1)
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Paraclete, i. e. Comforter. They had then one Comforter, who comforted and elevated them by the sweetness of His miracles, and His preaching.
Read the whole comment - Didymus the BlindCatena Aurea on John
But the Holy Ghost was another Comforter: differing not in nature, but in operation. For whereas our Saviour in His office of Mediator, and of Messenger1, and as High Priest, made supplication for our sins; the Holy…
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He says, I will ask the Father, to make them believe Him: which they could not have done, had He simply said, I will send.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Yet to shew that His works are inseparable from His Father’s, He says below, When I shall go, I will send Him unto you.
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But what had He more than the Apostles, if He could only ask the Father to give others the Spirit? The Apostles did this often even without praying.
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I will ask—He says, as being the inferior in respect of His humanity—My Father, with Whom I am equal and consubstantial in respect of My Divine nature.
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That He may abide with you for ever. The Spirit does not depart even at death. He intimates too that the Holy Ghost will not suffer death, or go away, as He has done. But that the mention of the Comforter might not…
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This is the Holy Ghost in the Trinity, Whom the Catholic faith professes to be consubstantial and coeternal with the Father and the Son.
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The Spirit of truth He calls Him, because He unfolds the figures of the Old Testament. The world are the wicked, seeing is certain knowledge; sight being the most certain of the senses.
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Note too, that when He calls the Holy Spirit the Spirit of truth, He shews that the Holy Spirit is His Spirit: then when He says He is given by the Father, He declares Him to be the Spirit of the Father also. Thus…
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The Holy Spirit kindles in every one, in whom He dwells, the desire of things invisible. And since worldly minds love only things visible, this world receiveth Him not, because it rises not to the love of things…
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Thus the world, i. e. the lovers of the world, cannot, He says, receive the Holy Spirit: that is to say, unrighteousness cannot be righteous. The world, i. e. the lovers of the world, cannot receive Him, because it…
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As if He said, He will not dwell with you as I have done, but will dwell in your souls.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
To be in a place is prior to dwelling. Be in you, is the explanation of dwell with you: i. e. shews that the latter means not that He is seen, but that He is known, He must be in us, that the knowledge of Him may be…
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But if the Holy Spirit abides in the disciples, how is it a special mark of the Mediator that He abides in Him. (supr. 1:32. ἐπʼ αὐτὸν) We shall better understand, if we distinguish between the different gifts of the…
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This speech levels at a stroke, as it were, the opposite heresies. The word another, shews the distinct personality of the Spirit: the word Paraclete, His consubstantiality.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Comforter, the title of the Holy Spirit, the third Person in the Trinity, the Apostle applies to God: God that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us. (2 Cor. 7:6) The Holy Spirit therefore Who comforts…
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But when the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us, (Rom. 5:6) how shall we love and keep the commandments of Christ, so as to receive the Spirit, when we are not able to…
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When He had cleansed His disciples by the sacrifice of His passion, and their sins were remitted, and they were sent forth to dangers and trials, it was necessary that they should receive the Holy Spirit abundantly.…
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 75.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 75.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 75.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 75.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 75.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 75.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 75.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 75.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 75.
Cited together in Didymus the Blind on John 14:15–17 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 14:15–17 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 14:15–17 (Catena Aurea).