John 14:21 (WEB)
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
Fathers and councils · 33
Augustine of Hippo
“He saith), “I will manifest Myself unto him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“But that vision of divinity, which He hath promised to them that love Him, when He saith, “He that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and he that loveth Me keepeth My commandments, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him:” this the ungodly shall not see.” — editor's note: John xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“…commands and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved by My Father: and I will love him, and will manifest Myself unto him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“So it is said, “Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us:” and our Lord Himself answereth, “I will manifest Myself to Zion;” and until this promise is fulfilled, no blessing satisfies us, or ought to do so, lest our longings should be arrested in their course, when they ought to be…” — editor's note: John xiv. 8, 21.
Read the whole comment“…the Father; as He promised to those who loved Him when He said, according to the testimony of John, “And I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“And for all believers living in the good hope, whose names are written in the book of life, there is still in reserve that which is referred to in the words, “And I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“For so it is said, “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 21
Read the whole comment“Otherwise if the Son of God, judging in the form in which He is equal to the Father, shall appear when He judges to the ungodly also; what becomes of that which He promises, as some great thing, to him who loves Him, saying, “And I will love him, and will manifest myself to him?”” — editor's note: John xiv. 21
Read the whole comment“…and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him,” at a time when He was manifest before the eyes of men; unless because He was offering that flesh, which the Word was made in the fullness of time, to be…” — editor's note: John xiv. 9, 21
Read the whole comment“And as if it were said, What wilt Thou give him, seeing Thou wilt love him?” — editor's note: John xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment““Whoso loveth Me,” saith He, “keepeth My commandments; whoso loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“He spake amongst the good and evil, and was seen of all, as God, hidden, as Man, manifested; as God ruling men, as Man appearing among men: He spake, I say, among them, and said, “Whoso loveth Me, keepeth My commandments; and he that loveth Me, shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“For “he that loveth me,” saith He, “keepeth my commandments; and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“…and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will show myself to him.’”” — editor's note: John xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“They certainly already saw the person to whom they were listening; and yet to them, if they loved Him, does He give it as a promise that they should see Him.” — editor's note: Chap. xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“If, then, he that believeth shall do such works, he that shall do them not is certainly no believer: just as “He that loveth me, keepeth my commandments,” implies, of course, that he who keepeth them not, loveth not.” — editor's note: Chap. xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“…but rather to that of which He had already said, “He that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”” — editor's note: Chap. xiv. 21.
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John Chrysostom
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Ambrose of Milan
“For He Himself said: “He that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 21.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
That no one might think, because our Lord was about to give the Holy Spirit, that He would therefore not be present Himself in Him, He adds, I will not leave you comfortless. The Greek word ὀρφανοὶ signifies “wards.”…
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At the first He said, Whither I go ye shall come; but as this was a long time off, He promises them the Spirit in the interval. And as they knew not what that was, He promises them that they most desired, His own…
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For the world saw Him then with the carnal eye, manifest in the flesh, though it did not see the Word hidden under the flesh. But after the resurrection He was unwilling to shew even His flesh, except to His own…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
AS if He said, Though I shall die, I shall rise again. And ye shall live also, i. e. when ye see Me risen again, ye will rejoice, and be as dead men brought to life again.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
To me however he seems to refer not only to the present life, but to the future; as if He said, The death of the cross shall not separate you from Me for ever, but only hide Me from you for a moment.
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But why does He speak of life as present to Him, future to them? Because His resurrection preceded, theirs was to follow. His resurrection was about so soon to take place, that He speaks of it as present; theirs…
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Or, in that day, on which I shall rise again, ye shall know. For His resurrection it was that established their faith. Then the powerful teaching of the Holy Spirit began. His saying, I am in the Father, expresses…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
Or He means by this, that whereas He was in the Father by the nature of His divinity, and we in Him by means of His birth in the flesh; He on the other hand should be believed to be in us by the mystery of the…
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By love, and the observance of His commandments, that will be perfected in us which He has begun, viz. that we should be in Him, and He in us. And that this blessedness may be understood to be promised to all, not to…
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He that hath them in mind, and keepeth them in life; he that hath them in words, and keepeth them in works; he that hath them by hearing, and keepeth them by doing; he that hath them by doing, and keepeth them by…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
As if He said, Ye think that by sorrowing, as ye do, for my death ye prove your affection; but I esteem the keeping of My commandments the evidence of love. And then He shews the privileged state of one who loves:…
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I will love him, as if now He did not love him. What meaneth this? He explains it in what follows: And will manifest Myself unto him, i. e. I love him so far as to manifest Myself to him; so that, as the reward of…
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He promises to shew Himself to them that love Him as God with the Father, not in that body which He bore upon earth, and which the wicked saw.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
Or, as after the resurrection He was to appear to them in a body more assimilated to His divinity, that they might not take Him then for a spirit, or a phantom, He tells them now beforehand not to have misgivings…
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Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.12.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.12.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.12.