John 17:26 (WEB)
I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
Catechism · 3
The Prayer of the Hour of Jesus
“His priestly prayer fulfills, from within, the great petitions of the Lord's Prayer: concern for the Father's name;” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 17:6, 11, 12, 26.
Jesus and Israel
“By forgiving sins Jesus either is blaspheming as a man who made himself God's equal, or is speaking the truth and his person really does make present and reveal God's name.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 5:18; 10:33; 17:6,26.
"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 · 14
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X X.7Conference X
“…Thou lovedst Me may be in them and they in us;” and again: “that they all may be one as Thou, Father, in Me and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us,” when that perfect love of God, wherewith “He first loved us” has passed into the feelings of our heart as well, by the fulfilment of this prayer of the Lord…” — editor's note: S. John xvii. 26, 21.
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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.
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
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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
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Cited together in Catechism §729.