John 14:23 (WEB)
Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
Catechism · 2
The Father
“But even now we are called to be a dwelling for the Most Holy Trinity: "If a man loves me", says the Lord, "he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him":” — Catechism footnote: Jn 14:23.
In the Fullness of Time
“This new dimension of prayer and of its circumstances is displayed throughout the farewell discourse.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 14:23-26; 15:7, 16; 16:13-15; 16:23-27.
Fathers and councils · 52
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VIII.18Book VIII
“And the Saviour says, “If any man hear My words, and do them, I and My Father will come to him, and make Our abode with him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 23.
Read the whole comment “…are rendered capable of receiving His word and wisdom, according to His own declaration, “I and the Father shall come, and We shall make our abode with him?”” — editor's note: John xiv. 23.
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Jerome
“As, then, there are not varying degrees of Christ’s presence in us, so neither are there degrees of our abiding in Christ.“Every one that loveth me will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 23.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.3Discourse III
“…Son coming to the Saints, the Father is He who cometh in the Son, as He promised when He said, ‘I and My Father will come, and will make Our abode with him;’ for in the Image is contemplated the Father, and in the Radiance is the Light.” — editor's note: John xiv. 23.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X I.19Conference I
“Another too tells us “And an angel spoke, and said in me,” or when the Son of God promised that He would come with His Father, and make His abode in us, and “It is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.”” — editor's note: Cf. S. John xiv. 23.
Read the whole comment “…God’s presence, according to the Lord’s promise: “if any man love Me, he will keep My word; and I and My Father will come to him and make Our abode with him.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 23.
Read the whole comment““I,” says He, “and my Father will come to him, and will make our abode with him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 23.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Matthew
“I hear the Son truly saying to the Holy Apostles, “If any man love Me, he will keep My saying, and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.” [John 14:23]” — the author cites it
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Gregory the Great
“For He Himself says, He that loveth me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him (Joh. xiv. 23).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For he says, He that loveth me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will make our abode with him (Joh. xiv. 23).” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“We are to do this, so that, as He Himself promised, He may come together with the Father and make His abode with us.” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 23.
Read the whole comment“…and in whomsoever the Father dwells, in him also the Son dwells, as it is written: “Both I and My Father will come to Him, and make Our abode with Him.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 23.
Read the whole comment“Of which we would speak more fully did we not remember that in the former treatise there was set forth that the Father said: “Let us go down and confound their language,” and that the Son said: “He that loveth Me will keep My saying, and My Father will love him, and We will come to Him and make Our abode with Him.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 23.
Read the whole comment“Therefore the Spirit dwells in His holy temple, as the Father dwells and as the Son dwells, Who says: “I and the Father will come, and will make Our abode with him.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 23.
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John Chrysostom
““For,” He says, “We will come,” I and the Father, “and will make our abode with him.” ( John xiv. 23.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““I and the Father will come unto him,” He says, “and We will make our abode with him.” ( John xiv. 23.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““For,” He saith, “He that loveth Me, will keep My commandments; and I and My Father will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.” ( John xiv. 23 ; slightly varied.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“So in another place He is seen establishing yet more firmly His equality with the Father, saying, “I and My Father ‘will come, and will make Our abode with him.’” ( c. xiv. 23.)” — the author cites it
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Read the whole comment“But in another place He speaketh not so; He saith not that the Father cometh by Him, but, “that He and the Father come, and take up their abode with him,” “there” removing the suspicion of Sabellius, “here” that of Arius.” — editor's note: al. “there stopping the mouths of the Sabellians, here removing the folly of Arius.” The earlier passage, c. xiv. 23 , proves the distinct Personality, the…
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Basil the Great
“It does indeed equally well with the preposition “and,” confute the mischief of Sabellius; and it sets forth quite as well as “and” the distinction of the hypostases, as in the words “I and my Father will come,” and “I and my Father are one.”” — editor's note: Apparently an inexact reference to John xiv. 23.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Jesus answered and said to him, “If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 22, 23
Read the whole comment“Sometimes also the unity of the essence is left unexpressed, and the relatives alone are mentioned in the plural number: “My Father and I will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 23
Read the whole comment“…promise when He said, “Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world;” and, I and the Father “will come unto him, and will make Our abode with him;” seeing that He also promised that He would send the Holy Spirit in such a way that He would be with them for ever?” — editor's note: Chap. xiv. 23.
Read the whole comment“…as if the Father were not in us, or we were not in the Father; since He had also said in another place, “We will come unto him, and make our abode with him;” and a little before in this present passage He had not said, “I in them and Thou in me,” as He said now; or, They in me, and I in Thee; but, “Thou in me, and I…” — editor's note: Chap. xiv. 23.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…of that saying of our Lord, If a man love Me, he will also keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 23.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.2On Virginity
“No longer indeed does the Master come with bodily presence; “we know Christ no longer according to the flesh”; but, spiritually, He dwells in us and brings His Father with Him, as the Gospel somewhere tells.” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 23
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And when you read, I and the Father are One, keep before your eyes the Unity of Substance; but when you see, “We will come to him, and make Our abode with him,” remember the distinction of Persons; and when you see the Names, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, think of the Three Personalities.” — editor's note: John xiv. 23.
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Aphrahat
“And our Lord said:—Whoever walks in My commandments and keeps My love, We will come to him and make Our abode with him.” — editor's note: John xiv. 23.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Our Lord having said, A little while, and the world seeth Me no more: but ye shall see Me: Judas, not the traitor named Scariot, but he whose Epistle is read among the Canonical Scriptures, asks His meaning: Judas…
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If thou wouldest prove thy love, shew thy works. The love of God is never idle; whenever it is, it doeth great things: if it do not work, it is not.
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Love distinguishes the saints from the world: it maketh men to be of one mind in an house; in which house the Father and the Son take their abode; who give that love to those, to whom in the end they will manifest…
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Into some hearts He cometh, but not to make His abode with them. For some feel compunction for a season and turn to God, but in time of temptation forget that which gave them compunction, and return to their former…
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But while the Father and the Son make Their abode with the loving soul, is the Holy Spirit excluded? What meaneth that which is said of the Holy Spirit above: He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you, but that the…
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In proportion as a man’s love rests upon lower things, in that proportion is he removed from heavenly love: He that loveth Me not, keepeth not My sayings. To the love then of our Maker, let the tongue, mind, life…
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Or thus: Judas thought that he should see Him, as we see the dead in sleep: How is it, that Thou wilt manifest Thyself unto us, and not unto the world? meaning, Alas, as Thou art to die, Thou wilt appear to us but as…
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And perhaps there is a distinction at bottom, since He speaks of His sayings, when they are His own, in the plural number; as when He says, He that loveth Me not, keepeth not My sayings: when they are not His own,…
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These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. Some of these things were obscure, and not understood by the disciples.
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The abode He promised them hereafter is altogether a different one from this present abode He now speaks of. The one is spiritual and inward, the other outward, and perceptible to the bodily sight and hearing.
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To enable them to sustain His bodily departure more cheerfully, He promises that that departure shall be the source of great benefit; for that while He was then in the body, they could never know much, because the…
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Paraclete is Advocate, or Comforter. The Advocate then intercedes with the Father for sinners, when by His inward power He moves the sinner to pray for himself. The Comforter relieves the sorrow of penitents, and…
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He often calls Him the Comforter, in allusion to the affliction in which they then were.
Read the whole comment - Didymus the BlindCatena Aurea on John
The Saviour affirms that the Holy Spirit is sent by the Father, in His, the Saviour’s, name; which name is the Son. Here an agreement of nature and propriety1, so to speak, of persons is shewn. The Son can come in…
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Unless the Spirit be present to the mind of the hearer, the word of the teacher is vain. Let none then attribute to the human teacher, the understanding which follows in consequence of his teaching: for unless there…
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So then the Son speaks, the Holy Spirit teaches: when the Son speaks we take in the words, when the Holy Spirit teaches, we understand those words. The whole Trinity indeed both speaks and teaches, but unless each…
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But why is it said of the Spirit, He shall suggest2 all things to you: to suggest being the office of an inferior? The word is used here, as it is used sometimes, in the sense of supplying secretly. The invisible…
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Suggest, i. e. bring to your remembrance. Every wholesome hint to remember that we receive is of the grace of the Spirit.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
The Holy Spirit then was both to teach and to bring to remembrance: to teach what Christ had forborne to tell His disciples, because they were not able to bear it; to bring to remembrance what Christ had told them,…
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Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: He says this to console His disciples, who were now troubled at the prospect of the hatred and opposition which awaited them after His departure.
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He left no peace in this world; in which we conquer the enemy, and have love one to another: He will give us peace in the world to come, when we shall reign without an enemy, and where we shall be able to avoid…
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External peace is often even hurtful, rather than profitable to those who enjoy it.
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But there is a peace which is serenity of thought, tranquillity of mind, simplicity of heart, the bond of love, the fellowship of charity. None will be able to come to the inheritance of the Lord who do not observe…
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