John 16:12 (WEB)
“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.
Catechism · 2
The Sacrament of Confirmation
“On several occasions Christ promised this outpouring of the Spirit,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 12:12; Jn 3:5-8; 7:37-39; 16:7-15; Acts 1:8.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“Only when the hour has arrived for his glorification does Jesus promise the coming of the Holy Spirit, since his Death and Resurrection will fulfill the promise made to the fathers.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 14:16-17, 26; 15:26; 16:7-15; 17:26.
Fathers and councils · 45
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.2Book II
“Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all the truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak.”” — editor's note: John xvi. 12, 13.
Read the whole comment “…when the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, is come, He will teach you all things, and will bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”” — editor's note: Cf. John xvi. 12, 13, and xiv. 26.
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Jerome
“These things are those concerning which our Lord said to the Apostles: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.” — editor's note: S. John xvi. 12, 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For the Lord lied not when He said, “I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.”” — editor's note: John xvi. 12
Read the whole comment“For he wished not to be lightly esteemed, but went about trying to persuade men “that the Holy Ghost, the Comforter and Enricher of Thy faithful ones, was with full authority personally resident in him.”” — editor's note: This claim of Manichæus was supported by referring to the Lord’s promise (John xvi. 12, 13) to send the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, to guide the apostles into…
Read the whole comment“But even the Lord concealed the truth, when He said to the disciples, not yet strong enough, “I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now:” and the Apostle Paul when he said, “I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal.”” — editor's note: John xvi. 12.
Read the whole comment“Why?…Even the Lord Himself says, “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.”” — editor's note: John xvi. 12.
Read the whole comment“12. …For even the Lord saith, “Many things I have to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now.”” — editor's note: John xvi. 12.
Read the whole comment“For He says to the disciples themselves, “I have yet many things to say unto you; but ye cannot bear them now.”” — editor's note: John xvi. 12
Read the whole comment“For the Lord Himself, although He never told a lie, yet showed that He was concealing certain truths, when He said, “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.”” — editor's note: John xvi. 12.
Read the whole comment“For it was in no spirit of grudging that the Lord Jesus Christ Himself acted towards those great and specially chosen disciples of His, when He said, “I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.”” — editor's note: Chap. xvi. 12.
Read the whole comment“Nay more, is it not the case that a little afterwards, in this same discourse, which He delivered to the disciples between the Supper and His passion, He said, “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now”?” — editor's note: Chap. xvi. 12.
Read the whole comment“For He, who has predestinated all that is to be by sure and unchangeable causes, has done whatever He is to do: as it was also declared of Him by the prophet, “Who hath made the things that are to be.”” — editor's note: Chap. xvi. 12.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…who never spoke falsely, yet sometimes concealed the truth, as in that, “I have yet many things to say unto you, the which ye are not now able to bear.” [John 16:12] But if any is unable to receive these things because of his filthiness, we must first cleanse him as far as lays in our power either by word or deed.” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“All things that the Father hath are mine; therefore said I, That He shall take of Mine, and shall announce it unto you.” — editor's note: Ib. v. 12–15.
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John Chrysostom
“How then saith He, “I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now”? ( c. xvi. 12.)” — the author cites it
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Read the whole comment“For if to His disciples He said, “I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now;”much more would the rest of the people have utterly failed, had the chiefest of these mysteries been revealed to them before the proper time.” — editor's note: John xvi. 12.
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Tertullian
“…saying, “I still have many things to say unto you, but ye are not yet able to bear them: when the Holy Spirit shall be come, He will lead you into all truth,” He sufficiently, of course, sets before us that He will bring such (teachings) as may be esteemed alike novel, as having never before been published, and…” — editor's note: John xvi. 12, 13. Tertullian’s rendering is not verbatim.
Read the whole comment““Still,” He said, “I have many things to say to you, but ye are not yet able to bear them: when that Spirit of truth shall have come, He will conduct you into all truth, and will report to you the supervening (things).”” — editor's note: John xvi. 12, 13. See de Monog., c. ii.
Read the whole comment“No doubt He had once said, “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot hear them now;” but even then He added, “When He, the Spirit of truth, shall come, He will lead you into all truth.”” — editor's note: John xvi. 12, 13.
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Ambrose of Milan
“But when He, the Spirit of Truth, shall come, He will lead you into all truth.”” — editor's note: S. John xvi. 12, 13.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“He says, I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.” — editor's note: St. John xvi. 12.
Read the whole comment“All things whatsoever the Father hath are Mine: therefore said I, He shall receive of Mine and shall declare it unto you.” — editor's note: St. John xvi. 12–15.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…this and nothing else that the Word Himself intimated that there were things which could not now be borne, but which should be borne and cleared up hereafter, and which John the Forerunner of the Word and great Voice of the Truth declared even the whole world could not contain.” — editor's note: John xvi. 12.
Read the whole comment“Our Saviour had some things which, He said, could not be borne at that time by His disciples (though they were filled with many teachings), perhaps for the reasons I have mentioned; and therefore they were hidden.” — editor's note: Ib. xvi. 12.
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Leo the Great
“All things that the Father hath are Mine: therefore said I that He shall take of Mine, and shall announce it to you.”” — editor's note: S. John xvi. 12–15.
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Gregory the Great
“Wherefore the Lord before His disciples, tempering His speech with silence, says, I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now (Joh. xvi. 12).” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on John
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
Our Lord having said above, It is expedient for you that I go away, He enlarges now upon it: I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
All heretics, when their fables are rejected for their extravagance by the common sense of mankind, try to defend themselves by this text; as if these were the things which the disciples could not at this time bear,…
Read the whole comment - Didymus the BlindCatena Aurea on John
Or He means that His hearers had not yet attained to all those things which for His name’s sake they were able to bear: so revealing lesser things, He puts off the greater for a future time, such things as they could…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Having said then, Ye cannot bear them now, but then ye shall be able, and, The Holy Spirit shall lead you into all truth; lest this should make them suppose that the Holy Spirit was the superior, He adds, For He…
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This is like what He said of Himself above, i. e. I can of Mine own Self do nothing; as I hear I judge. But that may be understood of Him as man; how must we understand this of the Holy Ghost, Who never became a…
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He shall not speak of Himself i. e. not without Me, and Mine and the Father’s will: because He is not of Himself, but from the Father and Me. That He exists, and that He speaks, He hath from the Father and Me. I…
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But it does not follow from hence that the Holy Spirit is inferior: for it is only signified that He proceeds from the Father.
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Nor let the use of the future tense perplex you: that hearing is eternal, because the knowledge is eternal. To that which is eternal, without beginning, and without end, a verb of any tense may be applied. For though…
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By the Spirit of truth too the knowledge of future events hath been granted to holy men. Prophets filled with this Spirit foretold and saw things to come, as if they were present: And He will shew you things to come.
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It is certain that many filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit have foreknown future events. But as many gifted saints have never had this power, the words, He will shew you things to come, may be taken to mean,…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
In this way then He raised their spirits; for there is nothing for which mankind so long, as the knowledge of the future. He relieves them from all anxiety on this account, by shewing that dangers would not fall upon…
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By pouring love into the hearts of believers, and making them spiritual, and so able to see that the Son Whom they had known before only according to the flesh, and thought a man like themselves, was equal to the…
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And because He had said, Ye have one Master, even Christ, (Mat. 23:8) that they might not be prevented by this from admitting the Holy Ghost as well, He adds, For He shall receive of Mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Read the whole comment - Didymus the BlindCatena Aurea on John
To receive must be taken here in a sense agreeable to the Divine Nature. As the Son in giving is not deprived of what He gives, nor imparts to others with any loss of His own, so too the Holy Ghost does not receive…
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But it is not true, as some heretics have thought, that because the Son receives from the Father, the Holy Ghost from the Son, as if by gradation, that therefore the Holy Ghost is inferior to the Son. He Himself…
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As if He said, Although the Spirit of truth proceeds from the Father, yet all things that the Father hath are Mine, and even the Spirit of the Father is Mine, and receiveth of Mine. But beware, when thou hearest…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
Our Lord therefore hath not left it uncertain whether the Paraclete be from the Father, or from the Son; for He is sent by the Son, and proceedeth from the Father, both these He receiveth from the Son. You ask…
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Cited together in Catechism §729.
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Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.
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Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.14.
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Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.14.
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Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 2.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 1.
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Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 23.
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Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.12.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.14.
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Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 1.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.12.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.12.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.12.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 7:6 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on John 16:12–15 (3) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 1.
Cited together in Catechism §729.
Cited together in Catechism §729.
Cited together in Catechism §729 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §729.