John 17:25 (WEB)
Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
Catechism · 2
“His priestly prayer fulfills, from within, the great petitions of the Lord's Prayer: concern for the Father's name; passionate zeal for his kingdom (Glory);” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 17:1, 5, 10, 22, 23-26.
“Finally, in this prayer Jesus reveals and gives to us the "knowledge," inseparably one, of the Father and of the Son,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 17:3, 6-10, 25.
Fathers and councils · 20
Gregory of Nyssa
“…use, is not applied with regard to the evident sense, but is used with a view to some hidden meaning, as the Gospel thus gives the name of “proverbs” to dark and obscure sayings; so that the “proverb,” if one were to set forth the interpretation of the name by a definition, is a form of speech which, by…” — editor's note: E. g.S. John xvii. 25.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…and to speak briefly, remember thou what is written in the Gospels, that none knoweth the Son but the Father, neither knoweth any the Father save the Son.” — editor's note: Matt. xi. 27; John x. 15; xvii. 25.
Read the whole comment“For he who proclaimed different gods, one the Good, the other the Just, contradicts the Son when He says, O righteous Father.” — editor's note: John xvii. 25.
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Ambrose of Milan
““Holy Father, the world hath not known Me, but these have known Me, and have willed not to know the world.”” — editor's note: S. John xvii. 25.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.5Book II
“Finally, in the Gospel according to John, our Lord Himself, when praying to the Father, says, “O just Father, the world hath not known Thee.”” — editor's note: John xvii. 25: Juste Pater.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And I have declared unto them Thy name, and will declare it; that the love wherewith Thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”” — editor's note: John xvii. 25, 26.
Read the whole comment“Did He not reprove it of righteousness, when He said, “O righteous Father, the world hath not known Thee”?” — editor's note: Chap. xvii. 25.
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John Chrysostom
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Basil the Great
““O righteous Father,” He says, “the world hath not known Thee,” meaning here by the world not the complex whole compounded of heaven and earth, but this life of ours subject to death, and exposed to innumerable vicissitudes.” — editor's note: John xvii. 25.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And I have declared to them Thy name, and will declare it.”” — editor's note: John xvii. 24–26.
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Catena Aurea on John
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
After He has said that many should believe on Him through them, and that they should obtain great glory, He then speaks of the crowns in store for them; Father, I will that they also whom Thou hast given Me, be with…
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These are they whom He has received from the Father, whom He also chose out of the world; as He saith at the beginning of this prayer, Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, i. e. all mankind, That He should give…
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What means then what the Truth saith above, No man hath ascended into heaven, but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. (John 3:13) Yet here is no discrepancy, for our Lord being the…
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But as respects the form of God, wherein He is equal to the Father, if we understand these words, that they may be with Me where I am, with reference to that, then away with all bodily ideas, and enquire not where…
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He saith not, that they may partake of My glory, but, that they may behold, intimating that the rest there is to see the Son of God. The Father gave Him glory, when He begat Him.
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When then we shall have seen the glory which the Father gave the Son, though by this glory we do not understand here, that which He gave to the equal Son when He begat Him, but that which He gave to the Son of man,…
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That which He calls glory then is the love wherewith He was loved with the Father before the foundation of the world. And in that glory He loved us too before the foundation of the world.
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After then that He had prayed for believers, and promised them so many good things, another prayer follows worthy of His mercy and benignity: O righteous Father, the world hath not known Thee; as if to say, I would…
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He says this as if He were troubled at the thought, that they should be unwilling to know One so just and good. And whereas the Jews had said, that they knew God, and He knew Him not: He on the contrary says, But I…
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Or thus; What is to know Him, but eternal life, which He gave not to a condemned but to a reconciled world? For this reason the world hath not known Thee; because Thou art just, and hast punished them with this…
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 21.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins II.2.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins II.2.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins II.2.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 21.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins II.2.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins II.2.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins II.2.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 21.