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John 17

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John 17:1–5

  • John Chrysostom on John 17:1–5 — After having said, In the world ye shall have tribulation, our Lord turns from admonition to prayer; thus teaching us in our tribulations to abandon all other things, and flee to God.vatican.va
  • Bede on John 17:1–5 — These things spake Jesus, those things that He had said at the supper, partly sitting as far as the words, Arise, let us go hence; (c. 14:31.) and thence standing, up to the end of the hymn which now commences, And…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:1–5 (2) — He lifted up His eyes to heaven to teach us intentness in our prayers: that we should stand with uplifted eyes, not of the body only, but of the mind.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:1–5 — Our Lord, in the form of a servant, could have prayed in silence had He pleased; but He remembered that He had not only to pray, but to teach. For not only His discourse, but His prayer also, was for His disciples’…vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:1–5 — He doth not say that the day, or the time, but that the hour is come. An hour contains a portion of a day. What was this hour? He was now to be spit upon, scourged, crucified. But the Father glorifies the Son. The…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:1–5 (2) — But if He was glorified by His Passion, how much more by His Resurrection? For His Passion rather shewed His humility than His glory. So we must understand, Father, the hour is come, glorify Thy Son, to mean, the…vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:1–5 (2) — But perhaps this proves weakness in the Son; His waiting to be glorified by one superior to Himself. And who does not confess that the Father is superior, seeing that He Himself saith, The Father is greater than I?…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:1–5 (3) — But it is justly asked, how the Son can glorify the Father, when the eternal glory of the Father never experienced abasement in the form of man, and in respect of its own Divine perfection, does not admit of being…vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:1–5 (3) — For being made flesh Himself, He was about to restore eternal life to frail, corporeal, and mortal man.vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:1–5 (4) — If Christ be God, not begotten, but unbegotten, then let this receiving be thought weakness. But not if His receiving of power signifies His begetting, in which He received what He is. This gift cannot be counted for…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:1–5 (3) — He saith, Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, to shew that His preaching extended not to the Jews only, but to the whole world. But what is all flesh? For all did not believe? So far as lay with Him, all did.…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:1–5 (4) — He saith, As Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, so the Son may glorify Thee, i. e. make Thee known to all flesh which Thou hast given Him; for Thou hast so given it to Him, that He should give eternal life to…vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:1–5 (5) — And in what eternal life is, He then shews: And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God. To know the only true God is life, but this alone does not constitute life. What else then is added?…vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:1–5 (6) — The Arians hold, that as the Father is the only true, only just, only wise God, the Son hath no communion of these attributes; for that which is proper to one, cannot be partaken of by another. And as these are as…vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:1–5 (7) — But it must be clear to every one that the reality of any thing is evidenced by its power. For that is true wheat, which when rising with grain and fenced with ears, and shaken out by the winnowing machine, and…vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:1–5 (8) — Because He says, Thee the only, does He separate Himself from communion and unity with God? He doth separate Himself, but that He adds immediately, And Jesus Christ Whom Thou hast sent. For the Catholic faith…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:1–5 (5) — Dismissing then the Arians, let us see if we are forced to confess, that by the words, That they may know Thee to be the only true God, He means us to understand that the Father only is the true God, in such sense as…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:1–5 (6) — Or is not the order of the words, That they may know Thee and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent, to be the only true God? the Holy Spirit being necessarily understood, because the Spirit is only the love of the…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:1–5 (7) — What He said to His servant Moses, I am that I am; (Exod. 3) this we shall contemplate in the life eternal.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:1–5 (8) — For when sight has made our faith truth, then eternity shall take possession of and displace our mortality.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:1–5 (9) — But God is first glorified here, when He is proclaimed, made known to, and believed in, by men: I have glorified Thee on the earth.vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:1–5 (9) — This new glory with which our Lord had glorified the Father, does not imply any advancement2 in Godhead, but refers to the honour received from those who are converted from ignorance to knowledge.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:1–5 (4) — He says, on the earth; for He had been glorified in heaven, both in respect of the glory of His own nature, and of the adoration of the Angels. The glory therefore here spoken of is not that which belongeth to His…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:1–5 (10) — Not Thou commandest Me, but, Thou gavest Me, implying evidently grace. For what hath human nature, even in the Only-Begotten, what it hath not received? But how had He finished the work which had been given Him to…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:1–5 (5) — Or, I have finished, i. e. He had done all His own part, or had done the chief of it, that standing for the whole; (for the root of good was planted:) or He connects Himself with the future, as if it were already…vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:1–5 (10) — After which, that we may understand the reward of His obedience, and the mystery of the whole dispensation, He adds, And now glorify Me with the glory with Thine own Self, with the glory which I had with Thee before…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:1–5 (11) — He had said above, Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee: the order of which words shews that the Son was first to be glorified by the Father, that the Father might be…vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:1–5 (11) — Or He prayed that that which was mortal, might receive the glory immortal, that the corruption of the flesh might be transformed and absorbed into the incorruption of the Spirit.vatican.va

John 17:6–8

  • John Chrysostom on John 17:6–8 — Having said, I have finished My work, He shews what kind of work it was, viz. that He should make known the name of God: I have manifested Thy name unto the men which Thou gavest Me out of the world.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:6–8 — If He speaks of the disciples only with whom He supped, this has nothing to do with that glorifying of which He spoke above, wherewith the Son glorified the Father; for what glory is it to be known to twelve or…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:6–8 (2) — That He was the Son of the Father, Christ had already manifested to them by words and deeds.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:6–8 (2) — Which Thou hast given Me out of the world: i. e. who were not of the world. But this they were by regeneration, not by nature. What is meant by, Thine they were, and Thou gavest them Me? Had ever the Father any thing…vatican.va
  • Bede on John 17:6–8 — And they have kept Thy word. He calls Himself the Word of the Father, because the Father by Him created all things, and because He contains in Himself all words: as if to say, They have committed Me to memory so…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:6–8 (3) — The Father gave Him all things, when having all things He begat Him.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:6–8 (3) — And whence have they learned? From My words, wherein I taught them that I came forth from Thee. For this was what He has been labouring to shew throughout the whole of the Gospel: For I have given unto them the words…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:6–8 (4) — i. e. have understood and remembered them. For then is a word received, when the mind apprehends it; as it follows, And have known surely that I came out from Thee. And that none might imagine that that knowledge was…vatican.va

John 17:9–13

  • John Chrysostom on John 17:9–13 — As the disciples were still sad in spite of all our Lord’s consolations, henceforth He addresses Himself to the Father to shew the love which He had for them; I pray for them; He not only gives them what He has of…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:9–13 — When He adds, I pray not for the world, by the world He means those who live according to the lust of the world, and have not the lot to be chosen by grace out of the world, as those had for whom He prayed: But for…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:9–13 (2) — He often repeats, Thou hast given Me, to impress on them that it was all according to the Father’s will, and that He did not come to rob another, but to take unto Him His own. Then to shew them that this power1 had…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:9–13 (2) — It is sufficiently apparent from hence, that all things which the Father hath, the Only-Begotten Son hath; hath in that He is God, born from the Father, and equal with the Father; not in the sense in which the elder…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:9–13 (3) — Then He gives proof of this, I am glorified in them. If they glorify Me, believing in Me and Thee, it is certain that I have power over them: for no one is glorified by those amongst whom he has no power.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:9–13 (3) — He speaks of this as already done, meaning that it was predestined, and sure to be. But is this the glorifying of which He speaks above, And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own Self? If then with Thyself,…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:9–13 (4) — And now I am no more in the world: i. e. though I no longer appear in the flesh, I am glorified by those who die for Me, as for the Father, and preach Me as the Father.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:9–13 (4) — At the time at which He was speaking, both were still in the world. Yet we must not understand, I am no more in the world, metaphorically of the heart and life; for could there ever have been a time when He loved the…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:9–13 (5) — He does not say, That I and they maybe one, though He might have said so in the sense, that He was the head of the Church, and the Church His body; not one thing, but one person: the head and the body being one…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:9–13 (5) — Again He speaks as man: While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Thy name; i. e. by Thy help. He speaks in condescension to the minds of His disciples, who thought they were more safe in His presence.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:9–13 (6) — The Son as man kept His disciples in the Father’s name, being placed among them in human form: the Father again kept them in the Son’s name, in that He heard those who asked in the Son’s name. But we must not take…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:9–13 (6) — He was the only one indeed who perished then, but there were many after. None of them is lost, i. e. as far as I am concerned; as He says above more clearly; I will in no wise cast out. But when they cast themselves…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:9–13 (7) — Or thus: That they might have the joy spoken of above: That they may be one, as We are one. This His joy, i. e. bestowed by Him, He says, is to be fulfilled in them: on which account He spoke thus in the world. This…vatican.va

John 17:14–19

  • John Chrysostom on John 17:14–19 — Again, our Lord gives a reason why the disciples are worthy of obtaining such favour from the Father: I have given them Thy word; and the world hath hated them; i. e. They are had in hatred for Thy sake, and on…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:14–19 — They had not yet experienced these sufferings which they afterwards met with; but, after His custom, He puts the future into the past tense. Then He gives the reason why the world haled them; viz. Because they are…vatican.va
  • Bede on John 17:14–19 — As if to say, The time is now at hand, when I shall be taken out of the world; and therefore it is necessary that they should be still left in the world, in order to preach Me and Thee to the world. But that Thou…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:14–19 (2) — He repeats the same thing again; They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:14–19 (2) — Above, when He said, Them whom Thou gavest Me out of the world, He meant their nature; here He means their actions. They are not of the world; because they have nothing in common with earth, they are made citizens of…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:14–19 (3) — Sanctify them through Thy truth: for thus were they to be kept from the evil. But it may be asked, how it was that they were not of the world, when they were not yet sanctified in the truth? Because the sanctified…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:14–19 (3) — Or thus: Sanctify them in Thy truth; i. e. Make them holy, by the gift of the Holy Spirit, and sound doctrines: for sound doctrines give knowledge of God, and sanctify the soul. And as He is speaking of doctrines, He…vatican.va
  • Glossa Ordinaria on John 17:14–19 — As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. For what Christ was sent into the world, for the same end were they; as saith Paul, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:14–19 (4) — It is manifest by this, that He is still speaking of the Apostles; for the very word Apostle means in the Greek, sent. But since they are His members, in that He is the Head of the Church, He says, And for their…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:14–19 (4) — Or thus: For their sakes I sanctify Myself, i. e. I offer Myself as a sacrifice to Thee; for all sacrifices, and things that are offered to God, are called holy. And whereas this sanctification was of old in figure,…vatican.va

John 17:20–23

  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:20–23 — When our Lord had prayed for His disciples, whom He named also Apostles, He added a prayer for all others who should believe on Him; Neither pray I for these alone, but for all others who shall believe on Me through…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:20–23 — Another ground of consolation to them, that they were to be the cause of the salvation of others.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:20–23 (2) — All, i. e. not only those who were then alive, but those who were to be born; not those only who heard the Apostles themselves, but us who were born long after their death. We have all believed in Christ through…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:20–23 (2) — And with this prayer for unanimity, He concludes His prayer; and then begins a discourse on the same subject: A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:20–23 — And this unity is recommended by the great example of unity: As Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us, i. e. that as the Father is in the Son, and the Son in the Father, so, after…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:20–23 (3) — This as again does not express perfect likeness, but only likeness as far as it was possible in men; as when He saith, Be ye merciful, even as your Father, which is in heaven, is merciful. (Luke 6:36)vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:20–23 (3) — We must particularly observe here, that our Lord did not say, that we may be all one, but that they may be all one, as Thou, Father, in Me, and I in Thee, are one, understood. For the Father is so in the Son, that…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:20–23 (4) — Or that in ourselves we cannot be one, severed from each other by diverse pleasures, and lusts, and the pollution of sin, from which we must be cleansed by a Mediator, in order to be one in Him.vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:20–23 (2) — Heretics endeavouring to get over the words, I and My Father are one, as a proving unity of nature, and to reduce them to mean a unity simply of natural love, and agreement of will, bring forwards these words of our…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:20–23 (5) — But why does He say, That the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me? Will the world believe when we shall all be one in the Father and the Son? Is not this unity that peace eternal, which is the reward of faith,…vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:20–23 (3) — Or, the world will believe that the Son is sent from the Father, for that reason, viz. because all who believe in Him are one in the Father and the Son.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:20–23 (4) — For there is no scandal so great as division, whereas unity amongst believers is a great argument for believing; as He said at the beginning of His discourse, By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:20–23 (6) — Then our Saviour, Who, by praying to the Father, shewed Himself to be man, now shews that, being God with the Father, He doth what He prays for: And the glory which Thou gavest Me, I have given them. What glory, but…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:20–23 (5) — By glory, He means miracles, and doctrines, and unity; which latter is the greater glory. For all who believed through the Apostles are one. If any separated, it was owing to men’s own carelessness; not but that our…vatican.va
  • Hilary of Poitiers on John 17:20–23 (4) — By this giving and receiving of honour, then, all are one. But I do not yet apprehend in what way this makes all one. Our Lord, however, explains the gradation and order in the consummating of this unity, when He…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:20–23 (6) — Elsewhere1 He says of Himself and the Father, We will come and make Our abode with Him; by the mention of two persons, stopping the mouths of the Sabellians. Here by saying that the Father comes to the disciples…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:20–23 (7) — Nor is this said, however, as if to mean that the Father was not in us, or we in the Father. He only means to say, that He is Mediator between God and man. And what He adds, That they may be made perfect in one,…vatican.va

John 17:24–26

  • John Chrysostom on John 17:24–26 — 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…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:24–26 — 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…vatican.va
  • Gregory the Great on John 17:24–26 — 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…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:24–26 (2) — 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…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:24–26 (2) — 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.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:24–26 (3) — 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,…vatican.va
  • Bede on John 17:24–26 — 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.vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 17:24–26 — 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…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 17:24–26 (3) — 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…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 17:24–26 (4) — 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…vatican.va

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