John 14:29 (WEB)
Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe.
Fathers and councils · 12
Athanasius of Alexandria
“And the Lord said in His own Person, ‘If ye loved Me, ye would rejoice because I said, I go unto the Father, for My Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye might believe.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 28, 29.
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on John
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
After saying, Peace I leave with you, which was like taking farewell, He consoles them: Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid: the two feelings of love and fear were now the uppermost in them.
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Though He was only going for a time, their hearts would be troubled and afraid for what might happen before He returned; lest in the absence of the Shepherd the wolf might attack the flock: Ye have heard how I said…
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Or thus: If the Father is greater by virtue of giving, is the Son less by confessing the gift? The giver is the greater, but He to whom unity with that giver is given, is not the less.
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Or thus: The Apostles did not yet know what the resurrection was of which He spoke when He said, I go, and come again to you; or what they ought to think of it. They only knew the great power of the Father. So He…
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But is not the time for belief before a thing takes place? Is it not the praise of faith, that it believes what it does not see? according to what is said below to Thomas: Because thou hast seen, thou hast believed.…
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He next alludes to the approach of the time when He would resume His glory. Hereafter I will not talk much with you.
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He says this because the time was now approaching for His being taken, and given up to death: For the Prince of this world cometh.
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i. e. the devil; the prince of sinners, not of creatures; as the Apostle saith, Against the rulers of this world. (Eph. 6:12) Or, as He immediately adds by way of explanation, this darkness, meaning, the ungodly. And…
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That the Son is obedient to the will and commandment of the Father, no more shews a difference in the two, than it would in a human father and son. But over and above this comes the consideration that Christ is not…
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Arise, let us go hence, is the beginning of the sentence which follows. The time and the place (they were in the midst of a town, and it was night time) had excited the disciples’ fears to such a degree, that they…
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 14:27–31 (3) (Catena Aurea).