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25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	5 <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 60pt">15</span>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	6 <p align=center><B>LECTURE I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	7 <BLOCKQUOTE><p>1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	8 Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	9 does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already made
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	10 clean by the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	11 the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	12 can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	13 abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	14 you can do nothing. 6 If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	15 branch and withers; and the branches are [and he is] gathered, thrown into the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	16 fire and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	17 you will, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	18 you bear much fruit, and so [become] prove to be my disciples.<a href="#_ftn1"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	19 name="_ftnref1">[1]</b></a></BLOCKQUOTE>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	20
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	21 <p>1978 In this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	22 talk our Lord especially wants to comfort his disciples about two things: one
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	23 was near, in the present, and this was his passion; the other was what they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	24 feared in the future, and this was the troubles which would come upon them. He
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	25 had said to them about these two things: <b>Let not your hearts be troubled, </b>referring
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	26 to the first, and neither let them be afraid (14:27), referring to the second.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	27
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	28 <p>So
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	29 now, after comforting them over his leaving (14:1), he strengthens them for the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	30 troubles which will come upon them. First, he presents a certain picture;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	31 secondly, he moves from this to his intention (15:3). The picture he presents
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	32 is of a vine and a vinedresser. First, he mentions the vine; secondly, the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	33 vinedresser; and thirdly, he approves of the vinedresser's concern for the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	34 branches of the vine.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	35
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	36 <p>1979 He himself
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	37 is the vine. So he says, making a comparison, <b>I am the vine</b>; for just
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	38 like a vine, although it seems to be of small account, nevertheless surpasses
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	39 all trees in the sweetness of its fruit, so Christ, although he seemed to be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	40 despised by the world because he was poor, and seemed of small account and was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	41 publicly disgraced, nevertheless produced the sweetest fruit: "His fruit was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	42 sweet to my taste" (Song 2:3). And so Christ is a vine producing a wine which
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	43 interiorly intoxicates us: a wine of sorrow for sin: "You have given us to drink
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	44 the wine of sorrow" [Ps 60:3]; and a wine which strengthens us, that is, which
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	45 restores us: "My blood is drink indeed" (6:55). In the same way he compared
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	46 himself, above, to wheat, for his flesh is truly food.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	47
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	48 <p>This
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	49 is the vine mentioned in Genesis (40:9‑10): "There was a vine before me,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	50 and on the vine there were three branches," that is Christ, in whom there are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	51 three substances: his body, soul and divinity. This is also the vine about
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	52 which Jacob says: "My son, tie your she‑ass," that is, the Church, "to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	53 vine" [Gen 49:11].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	54
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	55 <p>1980 This vine
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	56 is true. Sometimes what is true is distinguished from its likeness, as a man is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	57 distinguished from his picture. And sometimes what is true is distinguished
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	58 from what is deformed or spoiled, as true wine is distinguished from vinegar,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	59 which is spoiled wine. When Christ says here, <b>I am the true vine, </b>he is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	60 using true in the second sense to distinguish himself from the deformed or
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	61 spoiled vine, which is the Jewish people. We read about them: "How then have
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	62 you turned degenerate and become a wild vine" (Jer 2:21). This was because this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	63 vine brought forth wild grapes instead of grapes: "When I looked for it to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	64 yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?" (Is 5:4).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	65
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	66 <p>1981 There are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	67 two natures in Christ, the divine and the human. Because of his human nature he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	68 is like us and is less than the Father. Because of his divine nature he is like
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	69 God and above us. Thus he is the true vine insofar as he is the head of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	70 Church, the man Christ Jesus. He implies this when he mentions the vinedresser,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	71 who is the Father. He says, <b>and my Father is the vinedresser. </b>If Christ
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	72 is the vine because of his divine nature, the Father would also be the vine
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	73 like the Son. But because Christ is the vine by reason of his human nature, the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	74 Father is related to him as vinedresser to vine. Indeed, even Christ himself,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	75 as God, is a vinedresser.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	76
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	77 <p>1982 [The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	78 vinedresser cultivates the vine.] Now to cultivate something is to devote one's
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	79 interest to it. And we can cultivate something in two ways: either to make what
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	80 is cultivated better, as we cultivate a field or something of that sort, or to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	81 make ourselves better by the cultivating, and in this way we cultivate wisdom.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	82 God cultivates us to make us better by his work, since he roots out the evil
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	83 seeds in our hearts. As Augustine says, he opens our hearts with the plow of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	84 his words, plants the seeds of the commandments, and harvests the fruit of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	85 devotion.<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	86
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	87 <p>But
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	88 we cultivate God, not by plowing but by adoring, in order that we may be made
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	89 better by him: "If any one is a worshiper," that is, a cultivator, "of God and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	90 does his will, God listens to him" (9:31). And so the Father is the vinedresser
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	91 of this vine for the good of others. For he plants: "I planted you a choice
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	92 vine, wholly of pure seed" (Jer 2:21), and makes its grow: I planted, Apollos
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	93 can make one grow from within and produce fruit, no matter how much others
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	94 cooperate on the exterior. And God guards and preserves, for we read that he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	95 built a watchtower in the vineyard, and put a hedge around it (Mt 21:33; Is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	96 5:2).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	97
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	98 <p>1983 The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	99 vinedresser is concerned about two things: the vine and its branches. Now the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	100 vine considered here was perfect, and did not need care by the vinedresser. And
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	101 so the entire care of the vinedresser will be directed to the branches. He says,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	102 <b>every branch of mine </b>and so forth. The branches of a vine, however, have
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	103 the nature of the vine; and so those united to Christ are branches of this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	104 vine: "The vine brought forth branches" [Ez 17:6]. He mentions two things about
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	105 the branches: first, the attitude of the vinedresser to the bad branches; his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	106 interest in the good branches.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	107
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	108 <p>1984 The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	109 vinedresser's interest in the bad branches is to cut them off the vine. Thus he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	110 says, <b>every branch</b>, that is, every believer, <b>of mine that bears no
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	111 fruit, </b>that is, bears no fruit on the vine, which is me, without whom
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	112 nothing can bear fruit, <b>he takes away </b>from the vine. It is clear from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	113 this that not only are some cut off from Christ for doing evil, but also
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	114 because they neglect to do good: "We entreat you not to accept the grace of God
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	115 in vain" (2 Cor 6:1). Thus the Apostle said about himself: "By the grace of God
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	116 I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain" (1 Cor 15:10). We read
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	117 in Matthew (25:28) that the money was taken away from the servant who did not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	118 bear fruit with it, but hid it instead; and our Lord ordered the unfruitful fig
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	119 tree to be cut down (Lk 13:7).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	120
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	121 <p>1985 His
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	122 interest in the good branches is to help them so they can bear more fruit. So
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	123 he says, <b>and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	124 more fruit. </b>Considering the literal sense, we see that a natural vine with
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	125 branches that have many shoots bears less fruit, because the sap is spread out
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	126 through all the shoots. Thus the vinedresser prunes away the extra shoots so
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	127 that the vine can bear more fruit. It is the same with us. For if we are well‑disposed
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	128 and united to God, yet scatter our love over many things, our virtue becomes
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	129 weak and we become less able to do good. This is why God, in order that we may
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	130 bear fruit, will frequently remove such obstacles and prune us by sending
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	131 troubles and temptations, which make us stronger. Accordingly, he says, he <b>prunes</b>,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	132 even though one may be clean, for in this life no one is so clean that he does
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	133 not need to be cleansed more and more: "If we say we have no sin, we deceive
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	134 ourselves, and the truth is not in us" (1 Jn 1:8). And he does this so <b>that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	135 it may bear more fruit, </b>that is, grow in virtue, so that the more pruned or
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	136 cleansed the more fruitful one is: "Let the just still be justified, and the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	137 holy still be sanctified" [Rev 22:11]; "The Gospel is bearing fruit and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	138 growing" (Col 1:6); "They go from strength to strength" (Ps 84:7).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	139
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	140 <p>1986 Now he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	141 passes from this picture to his main intention. Two things were noticed in the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	142 above picture when comparing the branches to the vine: the union of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	143 branches to the vine, and the pruning of the branches. First, he considers the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	144 union of the branches with the vine; secondly, their pruning (v 18). As to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	145 first, he advises the disciples to cling to the vine; secondly, he gives the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	146 reason for this (v 4b); thirdly, he describes this union (v 9). He does two
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	147 things concerning the first: he reminds them of a benefit already received;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	148 secondly, he tells them to abide in him (4a).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	149
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	150 <p>1987 The benefit
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	151 they had already received was that of being cleansed. He says, <b>you are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	152 already made clean. </b>It is like saying: I have said certain things about
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	153 branches; and you are branches ready to be pruned so as to bear fruit. And you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	154 are clean by the <b>word which I have spoken to you.</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	155
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	156 <p>The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	157 word of Christ, in the first place, cleanses us from error by teaching us: "He
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	158 must hold firm to the sure word as taught, so that he may be able to give
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	159 instruction in sound doctrine" (Tit 1:9). This is because there is no falsity
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	160 in the words of God: "All my words are right" [Prv 8:8]. He says, <b>you are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	161 already made clean </b>from the errors of the Jews. Secondly, the word of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	162 Christ cleanses our hearts from earthly affections by inflaming them toward
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	163 heavenly things. For the word of God by its power moves our hearts, weighed
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	164 down by earthly things, and sets them on fire: "Is not my word fire?" (Jer
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	165 23:29). Thirdly when God is invoked in baptism, his word cleanses us from sin.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	166 For we are cleansed in baptism because the word cleanses with the water. As
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	167 Augustine says: "Take away the word and what is the water but only water? The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	168 word accompanies the element and a sacrament is formed."<a href="#_ftn3"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	169 name="_ftnref3">[3]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	170 Thus it is the word which makes the water touch the body and wash the heart.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	171 The word, I say, not because it is spoken, but because it is believed. For this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	172 word of faith is so strong in the Church that it even cleanses infants,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	173 although they themselves cannot believe, when it is proclaimed from the faith
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	174 of those who believe, offer, bless and touch the infants, "baptizing them in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	175 the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Mt 28:19).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	176 Fourthly, the word of Christ cleanses by the power of faith: God "cleansed
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	177 their hearts by faith" (Acts 15:9).<a href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4">[4]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	178
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	179 <p>Thus
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	180 he says to them, you already instructed, moved, baptized, strengthened in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	181 faith, <b>are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you. </b>"You
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	182 are clean, but not all" (13:10). Since he had said above that the work of a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	183 vinedresser was to prune, he clearly shows that he is a vinedresser when he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	184 says that his word cleanses. And indeed, Christ, as God, is a vinedresser and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	185 prunes the branches.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	186
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	187 <p>1988 Here he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	188 urges them to persevere. He is saying in effect: Because you are now cleansed
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	189 and have received such a great benefit, you should remain this way. He says, <b>Abide
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	190 in me, </b>by charity: "He who abides in love abides in God" (1 Jn 4:16); and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	191 by means of the sacraments: "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	192 me" (6:56). He says, <b>Abide in me, </b>by receiving grace, <b>and I in you, </b>by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	193 helping you.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	194
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	195 <p>1989 Next (v
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	196 4b), he gives four reasons for being united to Christ. First, it sanctifies
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	197 those who are united to him; secondly, those not united are punished (v 6);
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	198 thirdly, those who are united to him have their desires satisfied (v 7);
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	199 fourthly, it glorifies God (v 8). In regard to the first, he shows that being
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	200 united to Christ is necessary in order to bear fruit; secondly that this is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	201 efficacious (v 5).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	202
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	203 <p>1990 He does two
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	204 things about the first: first, he presents an illustration; and secondly shows
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	205 that it is apt. As to the first he says, I say that you should abide in me so
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	206 that you can bear fruit, because just <b>as the branch </b>literally, a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	207 material branch, <b>cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, </b>from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	208 whose roots sap ascends to give life to the branches, so <b>neither can you </b>bear
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	209 fruit <b>unless you abide in me. </b>Thus, being united to Christ is the reason
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	210 why someone bears fruit. And so of those who are not united to Christ we read:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	211 "What return [fruit] did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed?"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	212 (Rom 6:21); "The company of the godless is barren" (Job 15:34).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	213
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	214 <p>His
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	215 example is apt because <b>I am the vine, you are the branches. </b>It is like
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	216 saying: The relation between you and me is like that of branches to the vine.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	217 We read of these branches: "It sent out its branches to the sea" [Ps 80:11].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	218
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	219 <p>1991 Here he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	220 shows that being united to Christ is efficacious: first, he shows that it is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	221 efficacious; secondly, the reason for this efficacy (v 5b).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	222
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	223 <p>1992 First he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	224 says: I say that it is not only necessary for a person to abide in me in order
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	225 to bear fruit, it is also efficacious, <b>because he who abides in me</b>, by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	226 believing, obeying and persevering, <b>and I in him, </b>by giving
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	227 enlightenment, help and perseverance, he it is and not another, <b>that bears
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	228 much fruit.</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	229
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	230 <p>Such
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	231 persons bear a threefold fruit in this life. The first is that they avoid sin.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	232 Secondly, they are eager to accomplish works of holiness: "the return you get
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	233 is sanctification" (Rom 6:22). Thirdly, they are eager for the progress of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	234 others: "The earth will be filled with the fruit of your works" [Ps 104:13].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	235 They also pro�duce a fourth fruit, but in eternal life: "He gathers fruit for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	236 eternal life" (4:36). Eternal life is the last and perfect fruit of our labors:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	237 "The fruit of good works is glorious" [Wis 3:15].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	238
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	239 <p>1993 The reason
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	240 for this efficacy is because <b>apart from me you can do nothing. </b>With
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	241 these words he instructs the hearts of the humble and silences the mouths of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	242 the proud, especially of the Pelagians, who say that they can do by themselves,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	243 without the help of God, the good works of the virtues and of the law. And
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	244 although they were trying to maintain our free will, they really undermined it.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	245
33 d79bd8213f32 remove pIndent ht parents: 31 diff changeset	246 <p>Look at what our Lord says here! He says that
31 25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	247 without him we cannot do anything great, nor anything small, indeed, we cannot
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	248 do anything at all. This is not surprising because neither does God do anything
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	249 without him: "Without him was not anything made that was made" (1:3). For our
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	250 works are either from the power of nature or from divine grace. If they are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	251 from the power of nature, then, since every action of nature is from the Word
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	252 of God, no nature can act to do anything without him. If our works are from the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	253 power of grace, then, since he is the author of grace ‑ "grace and truth
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	254 came through Jesus Christ" (1:17) ‑ it is obvious that no meritorious
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	255 work can be done without him: "Not that we are capable of thinking anything of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	256 ourselves as originating from ourselves; our capability is from God" [2 Cor
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	257 3:5]. Therefore, if we cannot even think without it coming from God, much less
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	258 can we do anything else.<a href="#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5">[5]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	259
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	260 <p>1994 Here he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	261 mentions the second reason for remaining united to Christ, which is the threat
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	262 of punishment, for unless we abide in him, we will not escape punishment. He
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	263 mentions five things which describe this punishment. Some of these belong to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	264 the punishment of loss, that is to say, the exclusion from glory; so he says, <b>he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	265 is cast forth. </b>Sometimes on a natural vine we see a branch which remains by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	266 some sort of an external connection without sharing any of the sap. In this way
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	267 also some remain connected to Christ only by faith, yet they do not share the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	268 sap of the vine because they do not have charity. Thus, such persons will be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	269 cast out, that is, separated from fellowship with the good.<a href="#_ftn6"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	270 name="_ftnref6">[6]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	271
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	272 <p>The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	273 second punishment of loss is a withering; he says, <b>and withers</b>, for if
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	274 such a person once took anything at all from the root, he will lose it when
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	275 deprived of its help and life. Even bad Christians seem to have some kind of a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	276 freshness, but when they are separated from the saints and from Christ their
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	277 dried up condition will be apparent: "My strength is dried up like a potsherd"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	278 (Ps 22:16).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	279
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	280 <p>The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	281 third punishment is association with those who are evil; he says, <b>and he is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	282 gathered</b>, by the reaping angels, to be with the wicked. This is a very
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	283 great punishment. For if it is a great punishment to be with the wicked for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	284 only a little while, how much greater it is to be with the most evil men and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	285 devils forever: "They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit" (Is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	286 24:22); "Gather the weeds first and bind them into bundles to be burned" (Mt
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	287 13:30).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	288
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	289 <p>The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	290 fourth punishment is that of sense; he says, <b>thrown into the fire, </b>which
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	291 is eternal: "What will be done with the wood of the vine?... Look, it is given
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	292 to the fire for fuel" [Ez 15:2]. If the wood of the vine does not remain united
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	293 to it, it is more worthless than other woods; but if it abides on the vine it
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	294 is more beautiful than the others. Thus Augustine says: "A branch is fit for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	295 two things: either the vine or the fire. If it is not on the vine, it will be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	296 in the fire."<a href="#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7">[7]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	297 "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire" (Mt 25:41). The fifth
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	298 punishment is the unending experience of fire, he says, <b>and burned, </b>without
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	299 end: "And they will go away into eternal punishment" (Mt 25:46).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	300
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	301 <p>1995 Now we have
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	302 the third reason for abiding in Christ: our prayers become effective. He is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	303 saying, in effect, <b>If you abide in me</b>, you will obtain this fruit, that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	304 is, <b>ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	305
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	306 <p>Note
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	307 that when before he urged them to remain united to him, he mentioned two
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	308 things; and he repeats them here. First, he said before, <b>Abide in me</b>,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	309 and he repeats it here by saying, <b>If you abide in me</b>. Secondly, he said
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	310 before, <b>and I in you, </b>in place of which he now says, <b>and my words
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	311 abide in you. </b>Because Christ is the Word of the Father, all words of wisdom
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	312 are from him: "The source of wisdom is God's Word in the highest heaven" (Sir
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	313 1:5). Thus it is clear that Christ is in us when the words of his wisdom are in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	314 us: "You do not have his word abiding in you" (5:38).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	315
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	316 <p>Thus
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	317 he says, <b>and my words abide in you, </b>in four ways: by your loving them,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	318 believing them, meditating on them and accomplishing them: "My son, be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	319 attentive to my words," by believing them; "incline your ear to my sayings," by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	320 obeying or accomplishing them; "let them not escape from your sight," because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	321 you meditate on them; but "keep them within your heart," by loving them (Prv
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	322 4:20). "Your words were found and I ate them" (Jer 15:16).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	323
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	324 <p>Therefore,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	325 the words of Christ are in us when we do as he commands and love what he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	326 promises. And from this it follows that they teach us what we ought to pray
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	327 for: "We do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	328 for us with sighs too deep for words" (Rom 8:26). For this reason Christ taught
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	329 us to pray with his own words (Mt 6:9; Lk 11:2). And so the words of God, when
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	330 believed and meditated upon, teach us to ask for the things necessary for our
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	331 salvation; and these words of God when loved and accomplished help us to merit
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	332 it. So he adds, <b>ask</b>, with sound judgment and perseverance, <b>whatever
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	333 you will, and it shall be done for you: </b>"If you ask anything of the Father
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	334 in my name he will give it to you" [16:23].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	335
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	336 <p>1996 Now the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	337 fourth reason for abiding in Christ is mentioned, and it is the glory of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	338 Father. All our works should be directed to the glory of God: "Not to us, O
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	339 Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory" (Ps 115:1); "So, whether you eat
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	340 or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God" [1 Cor 10:31]. And so
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	341 our Lord shows that we are in Christ, because this is why we bear fruit, and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	342 because we bear fruit the Father is glorified. He says, <b>By this my Father is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	343 glorified</b>, that is, it reflects glory on my Father, <b>that you bear much
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	344 fruit.</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	345
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	346 <p>Here
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	347 he mentions, in reverse order, three things which follow one from the other.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	348 One refers to abiding in Christ, <b>you become my disciples</b>, and this is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	349 the same as "Abide in me" (v 4). The second follows from this, <b>you bear much
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	350 fruit. </b>And from this my Father is glorified. He is saying in effect: It
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	351 gives glory to the Father that you bear much fruit, and you bear much fruit
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	352 because you are my disciples. You do this, first of all, by living well: "That
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	353 they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	354 (Mt 5:16); and by teaching well, which also glorifies God: "Glorify the Lord by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	355 teaching" [Is 24:15]; "Every one who calls upon my name I have created him for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	356 my praise and glory" (Is 43:7). And so the apostles are the soil which bears
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	357 much fruit because they have become the disciples of Christ by abiding in him
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	358 and by the fire of their charity.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	359
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	360 <p>For
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	361 these are the signs of a disciple of Christ: first that one abides in him, is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	362 united to him: "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples" (8:31).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	363 And by doing this they become fit for bearing the fruit of teaching. The second
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	364 sign is charity: "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	365 have love for one another" (13:35). And because of this they are able to bear
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	366 the fruit of good works, because nothing has any value without charity: "If I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	367 have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries ... but have not love, I am
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	368 nothing" (1 Cor 13:2).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	369 <BR><BR><BR>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	370 <p align=center><B>LECTURE 2
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	371
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	372 <BLOCKQUOTE><p>9 "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	373 in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	374 I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	375 have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	376 12 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	377 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	378 friends."<a href="#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8">[8]</a></B></BLOCKQUOTE>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	379
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	380 <p>1997 Above, our
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	381 Lord urged his disciples to remain united with him; here he shows what this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	382 involves. He makes three points: first, to abide in him is to abide in his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	383 love; secondly, to abide in his love is to keep his commandments (v 10);
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	384 thirdly, that his commandment is to love (v 12). He does two things about the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	385 first: first, he recalls the benefit granted to the disciples; secondly, he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	386 urges them to persevere, <b>abide in my love </b>(v 9).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	387
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	388 <p>1998 He says
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	389 that the fact that we abide in Christ is due to his grace; and this grace is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	390 the effect of his love: "I have loved you with an everlasting love" (Jer 31:3).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	391 It is clear from this that all our good works are ours due to the benefit of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	392 divine love. For they would not be ours unless faith acted through love, and we
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	393 would not love unless we were first loved. And so he reminds them of this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	394 benefit by saying, <b>As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	395
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	396 <p>1999 The word
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	397 "as" sometimes indicates an equality of nature, and at other times a similarity
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	398 in acting. The Arians, who erred about this passage, wanted the "as" to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	399 indicate an equality, and because of this they concluded that the Son was inferior
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	400 to the Father. But this is false. We must say, then, according to Augustine,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	401 that the word "as" indicates a likeness in grace and love; for the love with
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	402 which the Son loves his disciples is a certain likeness of that love with which
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	403 the Father loves the Son.<a href="#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9">[9]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	404
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	405 <p>Now
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	406 since to love someone is to will good to that person, the Father loves the Son,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	407 with respect to the Son's divine nature, because the Father wills him his own
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	408 infinite good, which he has, by communicating to the Son the very same
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	409 numerical nature the Father himself has: "For the Father loves the Son, and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	410 shows him all that he himself is doing" (5:20). The Father also loves the Son
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	411 with respect to his human nature: "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	412 out of Egypt I called my son" (Hos 11:1). And he loves him so that he would be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	413 at once both God and man.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	414
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	415 <p>But
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	416 the Son did not love the disciples in either of these ways. For he did not love
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	417 them to the point of their being gods by nature, nor to the point that they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	418 would be united to God so as to form one person with him. But he did love them
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	419 up to a similar point: he loved them to the extent that they would be gods by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	420 their participation in grace ‑ "I say, 'You are gods'" (Ps 82:6); "He has
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	421 granted to us precious and very great promises, that through these you may
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	422 become partakers of the divine nature" (2 Pet 1:4) ‑ and he loved them to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	423 the extent that they would be united to God in affection: "He who is united to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	424 the Lord becomes one spirit with him" (1 Cor 6:17); "For those whom he foreknew
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	425 he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son" (Rom 8:29). Thus
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	426 the Father communicated to the Son a greater good, with respect to each nature
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	427 of the Son, than the Son did to his disciples; yet there is a similarity, as
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	428 was said.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	429
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	430 <p>2000 <b>Abide in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	431 my love. </b>This is like saying: Because you have received such a great
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	432 benefit from my love, <b>abide</b> in it so that you love me. Or it could mean,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	433 <b>abide in my love</b> because I love you, that is, abide in my grace so you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	434 will not be excluded from the good things I have prepared for you. This meaning
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	435 is the more apt, so that the thought is: Persevere in this state so that you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	436 will be loved by me through the effect of grace: "Every one should remain in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	437 the state in which he was called" (1 Cor 7:20). "He who abides in love abides
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	438 in God, and God abides in him" (1 Jn 4:16).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	439
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	440 <p>2001 Now he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	441 shows what it means to abide in his love. First, he shows that it means to keep
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	442 his commandment; secondly, he illustrates it with an example, <b>as I have kept
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	443 my Father's commandments; </b>thirdly, he eliminates an assumption (v 11).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	444
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	445 <p>2002 He says, <b>Abide
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	446 in my love, </b>and you will do this <b>if you keep my commandments, </b>for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	447 this is the way you will abide in my love. Keeping the commandments is an
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	448 effect of divine love, not only of the love by which we love, but also of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	449 love by which God loves us. For from the fact that God loves us, he influences
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	450 us and helps us to fulfill his commandments, which we cannot do without grace:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	451 "In this is love, not that we love God but that he loved us first" [1 Jn 4:10].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	452
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	453 <p>2003 He adds an
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	454 example when he says, <b>as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	455 his love. </b>For just as the love which the Father has for him is the model or
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	456 standard of Christ's love for us, so Christ wants his obedience to be the model
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	457 of our obedience. By saying this Christ shows that he abided in the Father's
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	458 love because in all things he kept the Father's commandments. For he submitted
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	459 to death: "He humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	460 cross" (Phil 2:8); and refrained from all sin: "He committed no sin; no guile
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	461 was found on his lips" (1 Pet 2:22). These things are to be understood of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	462 Christ in his human nature: "He has not left me alone, for I always do what is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	463 pleasing to him" (8:29). And so he says, <b>I abide in his love, </b>because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	464 there is nothing in me, as a human being, opposed to his love.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	465
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	466 <p>2004 Now so they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	467 do not think he is urging them to keep his commandments for his own benefit and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	468 not for their benefit, he says, <b>These things I have spoken to you, </b>that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	469 you keep my commandments, for your own good, so <b>that my joy may be in you. </b>Now
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	470 love is the cause of joy, for everyone takes joy in what he loves. But God
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	471 loves himself and creatures, especially rational creatures, to whom he grants
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	472 an infinite good. So Christ rejoices in two things from all eternity: first, in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	473 his own good and that of the Father: "I was delighted every day, playing before
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	474 him" [Prv 8:30]; secondly, he delights in the good of the rational creature:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	475 "delighting in the sons of men" (Prv 8:31), that is, in the fact that I am
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	476 shared in by the children of men. He rejoices in these things from eternity:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	477 "As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	478 (Is 62:5).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	479
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	480 <p>Consequently,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	481 our Lord wants us to become sharers of his joy by our observing his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	482 commandments. He says, <b>that my joy, </b>the joy I take in my divinity and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	483 that of my Father, <b>may be in you</b>. This is nothing else than eternal
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	484 life, which as Augustine says, is joy in the truth.<a href="#_ftn10"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	485 name="_ftnref10">[10]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	486 <b>That my joy may be in you </b>means, in effect, that you may have eternal
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	487 life: "Then you will delight yourself in the Almighty" (Job 22:26). <b>And that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	488 your joy</b>, which I take in my own humanity, <b>may be full</b>. The goods in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	489 which we rejoice are either imperfect or imperfectly possessed; and so in this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	490 life our joy cannot be full. But it will be full when perfect goods are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	491 perfectly possessed: "Enter into the joy of your master" (Mt 25:21).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	492
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	493 <p>2005 Now our
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	494 Lord states what his precepts are: first, he states his commandment; secondly,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	495 he presents an example (v 12b); thirdly, he recalls a benefit (v 14).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	496
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	497 <p>2006 The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	498 commandment he gives is the commandment of charity, which he wants us to keep: <b>This
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	499 is my commandment, that you love one another. </b>Since there are many other
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	500 commandments of the Lord in the sacred writings, why does he say that his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	501 commandment is only the practice of charity?
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	502
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	503 <p>The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	504 answer, according to Gregory, is that charity is the root and end of all the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	505 virtues.<a href="#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11">[11]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	506 It is the root, because it is from charity, firmly rooted in the human heart,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	507 that we are led to accomplish all the other commandments: "He who loves his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	508 neighbor has fulfilled the law" (Rom 13:8). Therefore, all the commandments
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	509 are, in a way, directed to this: that we do good to our neighbor, and not harm
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	510 him; and this is done best through charity. Charity is the end because all the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	511 commandments are directed to it and by it alone are given strength: "The aim of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	512 our charge is love" (1 Tim 1:5). So he says, <b>This is my commandment, that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	513 you love one another, </b>since everything comes from charity as its source,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	514 and all things are directed to charity as their end. As Gregory puts it: just
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	515 as many branches of a tree spring from one root, so the many virtues are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	516 produced from one root; and the branch of a good work has no life if it is not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	517 united to the root of charity.<a href="#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12">[12]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	518
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	519 <p>2007 Since we
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	520 read in Matthew (22:40) that the law and the prophets depend not only on love
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	521 for God, but also on love for neighbor, why does Christ mention here only love
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	522 for neighbor? The answer is that one is included in the other: for a person who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	523 loves God must love his neighbor and things which belong to God; and the person
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	524 who loves his neighbor for the sake of God must love God. Now although the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	525 objects of these acts are different, yet the outcomes are the same. There are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	526 two reasons why he mentions love of neighbor rather than the love of God. By
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	527 doing this he wants to teach and lead them to help their neighbor, and to help
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	528 them to become strong enough to endure sufferings from those who will persecute
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	529 them. To do both of these, charity for our neighbor is necessary.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	530
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	531 <p>2008 Here he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	532 shows by an example how we should love our neighbor, which is, as Christ loved
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	533 us. Now Christ loved us in the correct order and efficaciously. His love was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	534 orderly because he loved nothing in us but God and in relation to God: "I am
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	535 the mother of beautiful love" (Si 24:18), and efficacious because he loved us
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	536 so much that he delivered himself for us: "Christ loved us and gave himself up
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	537 for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God" (Eph 5:2). So we should love
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	538 our neighbor, in a holy way, for his good, and efficaciously, by showing our
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	539 love by our actions: "Let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	540 truth" (1 Jn 3:18).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	541
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	542 <p>2009 <b>Greater
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	543 love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. </b>Here
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	544 he shows the efficacy of love, which is that one undergo death for his friends;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	545 this is a sign of the greatest love. Yet one could object that it is considered
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	546 to be a sign of a greater love when someone lays down his life for his enemies,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	547 as Christ did: "But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	548 Christ died for us" (Rom 5:8).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	549
33 d79bd8213f32 remove pIndent ht parents: 31 diff changeset	550 <p>We should answer that Christ did not lay down his
31 25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	551 life for his enemies so that they would remain his enemies, but to make them
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	552 his friends. Or, one could say, that he lay down his life for his friends, not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	553 in the sense that they were friends who loved him, but rather were those whom
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	554 he loved. It is clear that the sign of the greatest love is to lay down one's
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	555 life for one's friends. This is so because there are four lovable things to be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	556 put in order: God, our soul, our neighbor, and our body. We should love God
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	557 more than ourselves and our neighbor, so that for the sake of God we ought to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	558 give ourselves, body and soul, and our neighbor. We should lay down our body,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	559 but not give it, for the sake of our soul. For our neighbor, we should expose
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	560 our body and our physical life for his salvation. Consequently, since our
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	561 physical life is the best thing we have after our soul, it is the greatest
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	562 thing to expose it for the sake of our neighbor, and a sign of greater love:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	563 "In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	564 into the world, so that we might live through him" (1 Jn 4:9).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	565 <BR><BR><BR>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	566 <p align=center><b>LECTURE 3
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	567
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	568 <BLOCKQUOTE><p>14 "You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	569 longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	570 doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	571 I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	572 appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	573 abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	574 17 This I command you, to love [so that you will love] one another."<a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	575 href="#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13">[13]</b></a></BLOCKQUOTE>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	576
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	577 <p>2010 Above, our
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	578 Lord urged us to love our neighbor, based on his example. Here, Christ shows
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	579 his disciples the benefit conferred upon them which obliges them to imitate
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	580 him, which is, that he has embraced them in his love. First, he mentions a sign
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	581 of friendship; secondly, the cause of this friendship (v 16). He gives two
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	582 signs of friendship: one is found in the disciples; the other in himself (v
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	583 15).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	584
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	585 <p>2011 The sign in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	586 the disciples that they are friends of Christ is that they keep his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	587 commandments; he says, <b>You are my friends if you do what I command you. </b>He
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	588 is saying in effect: Up to now I have urged you to love one another, but now I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	589 am speaking and teaching you about your friendship with me.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	590
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	591 <p>The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	592 statement, <b>you are my friends </b>can be understood in two ways, based on
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	593 the two ways someone is called a friend. A person is called a friend either
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	594 because he loves or because he is loved. And what follows, <b>if you do what I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	595 command you </b>is true for both meanings of friend. Those who love God keep
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	596 his commandments, and because a friend is, as Gregory says, in a way the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	597 guardian of the other's soul, it is appropriate that one who guards or keeps
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	598 the will of God in his commandments is called the friend of God.<a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	599 href="#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14">[14]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	600 Again, those whom God loves keep his commandments, because by conferring his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	601 grace on them he helps them to keep them: for by loving us, God makes us love
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	602 him: "I love those who love me" (Prv 8:17). It is not they who first loved God,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	603 but God makes them lovers by loving them.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	604
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	605 <p>2012 Note that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	606 keeping the commandments is not the cause of divine friendship but the sign,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	607 the sign that both God loves us and that we love God: "Love of her [Wisdom] is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	608 the keeping of her laws" (Wis 6:19); "He who says he loves him and does not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	609 keep his commandments is a liar" [1 Jn 2:4].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	610
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	611 <p>2013 The sign of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	612 Christ's friendship for them is mentioned when he says, <b>No longer do I call
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	613 you servants</b>. First, he excludes what seems opposed to friendship;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	614 secondly, he mentions the sign of true friendship (v 15b).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	615
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	616 <p>2014 Servitude
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	617 is opposed to friendship; and he rejects this by saying, <b>No longer do I call
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	618 you servants. </b>It is like saying: although you were formerly servants under
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	619 the law, now you are free under grace: "You have received the spirit of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	620 adoption" [Rom 8:15].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	621
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	622 <p>Secondly,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	623 he adds the reason for this when he says, <b>for the servant does not know what
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	624 his master is doing: </b>for a servant is like a stranger to his master, "The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	625 slave does not continue in the house for ever" (8:35). Now secrets should not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	626 be told to strangers, "Do not tell a secret to a stranger" [Prv 25:9]. And so
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	627 secrets should not be given to those who are now servants. This verse shows the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	628 servant does not act for the sake of himself, because charity does not seek its
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	629 own, but the interests of Jesus and the salvation of one's neighbor. Those who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	630 act entirely by reason of another are bad servants. Thus it is clear that the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	631 disciples were servants, but it was a good servitude springing from love.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	632
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	633 <p>As
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	634 for the second difficulty, we should say that the servant who is moved only by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	635 another and not by himself, is related to the one who moves him as a tool to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	636 the worker. Now a tool shares with the worker in the work, but not in the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	637 reason for the work. So such servants share only in the work. But when a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	638 servant acts by his own will, it is necessary for him to know the reason for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	639 the work and have secrets revealed to him so he can know what he is doing. "If
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	640 you have a servant, regard him as your own soul" [Sir 33:31]. Now the apostles,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	641 as was said, were moved by themselves to accomplish good works, that is, they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	642 were moved by their own will, inclined by love. And so our Lord revealed his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	643 secrets to them. But bad servants do not know what their master is doing. What
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	644 things don't they know? Strictly speaking, they do not know what God does in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	645 us. For God acts in us in all the good we do: "O Lord ... you have wrought for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	646 us all our works (Is 26:12). So the bad servant, darkened by the pride in his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	647 own heart, <b>does not know what his master is doing </b>when this servant
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	648 attributes to himself what he does.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	649
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	650 <p>2016 Now he sets
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	651 down the true sign of friendship on his own part, which is that <b>all that I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	652 have heard from my Father I have made know to you. </b>For the true sign of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	653 friendship is that a friend reveals the secrets of his heart to his friend.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	654 Since friends have one mind and heart, it does not seem that what one friend
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	655 reveals to another is placed outside his own heart: "Argue your case with your
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	656 neighbor" (Prv 25:9). Now God reveals his secrets to us by letting us share in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	657 his wisdom: "In every generation she [Wisdom] passes into holy souls and makes
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	658 them friends of God and prophets" (Wis 7:27).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	659
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	660 <p>2017 There is a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	661 question here as to what and in what way the Son hears from the Father. The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	662 answer has already been indicated in many ways. Since to hear is to receive
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	663 knowledge from another, for the Son to hear from the Father is nothing other
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	664 than for the Son to receive knowledge from the Father. Now the knowledge of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	665 Son is his own essence. Thus, for the Son to hear from the Father is for the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	666 Son to receive his essence from the Father.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	667
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	668 <p>2018 Another
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	669 question concerns the statement, <b>all that I have heard from my Father I have
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	670 made known to you. </b>If he did make all things known to them it would follow
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	671 that the disciples knew as much as the Son. The answer, according to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	672 Chrysostom, is that <b>all that I have heard </b>means all that I have heard
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	673 which you ought to hear, but not absolutely all things, <b>I have made known to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	674 you: </b>"I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	675 (16:12).<a href="#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15">[15]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	676
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	677 <p>Or,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	678 one could say, according to Augustine, that what he would say to them was so
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	679 certain that he used the past tense instead of the future.<a href="#_ftn16"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	680 name="_ftnref16">[16]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	681 So the meaning becomes, <b>all that I have heard from my Father I have made
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	682 known to you, </b>that is, I will make known with that fullness of which the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	683 Apostle says: "Then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	684 understood" (1 Cor 13:12). And below we read, "The hour is coming when I shall
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	685 tell you plainly of the Father" (16:25), that is, when I lead you to the vision
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	686 of the Father. For all things the Son knows the Father knows. So when he revels
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	687 the Father to us, the Son will reveal all that the Son himself knows and which
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	688 we know.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	689
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	690 <p> Again,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	691 one could say with Gregory, and this is better, that the same thing can be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	692 known perfectly or imperfectly. For example, in the sciences it is obvious that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	693 a person who knows all the principles of a science is said to know that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	694 science, although imperfectly. And so a person who teaches some principles of a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	695 science can say that he teaches that science, because everything that belongs
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	696 to that science is virtually contained in its principles. But one will know
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	697 that same science more perfectly when he knows the individual conclusions which
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	698 are virtually in the principles. In the same way we can have a twofold
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	699 knowledge of divine matters. One is imperfect, and is gained by faith, which is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	700 a foretaste of that future happiness and knowledge which we will have in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	701 heaven: "Faith is the substance of things to be hoped for" [Heb 11:2]. He says
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	702 of this knowledge, <b>all ... I have made known to you, </b>that is, in faith,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	703 by a kind of foretaste, like conclusions are virtually contained in their
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	704 principles. So Gregory says: "All the things he has made known to his servants
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	705 are the joys of interior love and the feasts of our heavenly fatherland, which
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	706 he excites in our minds every day by the breath of his love. For as long as we
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	707 love the sublime heavenly things we have heard, we already know what we love,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	708 because the love itself is knowledge."<a href="#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	709 title="">[17]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	710
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	711 <p>2019 Now he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	712 mentions the cause of this friendship. It is the usual practice for each one of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	713 us to say that he or she is the cause of friendship: "Every friend will say, 'I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	714 started the friendship'" [Sir 37:1]. And so many people attribute to themselves
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	715 the cause of God's friendship when they attribute to themselves, and not to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	716 God, the source of their good actions. Our Lord rejects this by saying, <b>you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	717 did not choose me. </b>He is saying in effect: Whoever has been called to this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	718 sublime friendship should not attribute the cause of this friendship to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	719 himself, but to me, who chose him or her as a friend. First, he mentions the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	720 gratuitous choice of God; secondly, he sets forth for what they have been
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	721 chosen, <b>that you should go and bear fruit.</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	722
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	723 <p>2020 He says,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	724 you did not choose me to be your friend, <b>but I chose you </b>to make you my
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	725 friends: "Not that we loved God, but that he loved us first" [1 Jn 4:10].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	726
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	727 <p>Now
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	728 God's love is twofold. One is eternal, by which we are predestined: "He chose
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	729 us in him before the foundation of the world" (Eph 1:4). The other is temporal,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	730 by which we are called by him, and this is simply the carrying out of eternal
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	731 predestination. And this is because those he chose by predestining them he also
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	732 chose by calling them: "Those whom he predestined he also called" (Rom 8:30);
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	733 "He chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles" (Lk 6:13).<a href="#_ftn18"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	734 name="_ftnref18">[18]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	735
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	736 <p>2021 Some say
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	737 that God's temporal choice is caused by the merits of those who are chosen.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	738 This conflicts with what it says here. For if God chose you because you were
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	739 good, you were still not able to be good unless you chose the good, and this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	740 good is especially God. Therefore, it was you who first chose the good which is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	741 God, before you were chosen. But our Lord says the contrary: <b>you did not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	742 choose me, but I chose you. </b>Thus we should not say that our own goodness
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	743 entirely precedes God's choice. I say "entirely" because we might have some
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	744 particular good which could be the cause of another good being given to us; and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	745 this good could be the cause of being given still another good, since there is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	746 a certain order in God's gifts. But in general, nothing can be the cause of and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	747 precede the divine choice, because all our goods are from God.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	748
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	749 <p>2022 It would be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	750 an even greater error to say that our eternal election was preceded by our own
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	751 choice. Yet there are some who said that our preceding merits are the cause of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	752 that election. This was Origen's error. He said that human souls were created
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	753 equal at the same time and that while some stood firm, others sinned, more and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	754 less seriously. Thus, some merited to receive grace, and others did not.<a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	755 href="#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19">[19]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	756 Our Lord's saying is opposed to this, <b>you did not choose me.</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	757
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	758 <p>2023 Others say
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	759 that it is true that our actually existing merits are not the cause of our
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	760 predestination, but those merits preexisting in the foreknowledge of God are.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	761 Thus they say that because God knew that certain persons would be good and make
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	762 good use of grace, he decided to give them grace. But if this were so, it would
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	763 follow that the reason he chose us was because he foreknew we would choose him.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	764 And so our choice would be prior to the divine choice; which is contrary to our
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	765 Lord's statement.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	766
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	767 <p>2024 Perhaps
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	768 someone might say: What choice could there be since we were nothing and there
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	769 was no rank among us? But one who says this is mislead by thinking that the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	770 divine choice is like human choice. They are not the same. Our choice is caused
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	771 by some already existing good; while God's choice is the cause of an influx of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	772 good, greater in one than in another. Since choice is an act of the will, then
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	773 according as the will of God and the human will are differently related to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	774 good, so the character of their choice will be different. Now God's will is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	775 related to a created good as its cause: "How would anything have endured if
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	776 thou hadst not willed it?" (Wis 11:25). And so goodness is dispensed to created
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	777 things from the will of God. Accordingly, God prefers one person to another
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	778 insofar as he confers more good on that one than on another. But the human will
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	779 is moved to something by a preexisting good which has become known. Therefore,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	780 in our choices it is necessary that one good exist before another. The reason
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	781 why God confers more good on one than on another is so that there might be a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	782 splendor of order in things. This is clear in material things where prime
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	783 matter of itself is uniformly disposed to all forms. Also, before things
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	784 themselves exist, they are not disposed to this or that existence; rather, they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	785 receive different forms and existences from God so that an order can be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	786 established among them. It is like this among rational creatures, where some
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	787 are chosen for glory and some are rejected for punishment: "The Lord knows who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	788 are his ... In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	789 also of wood and earthenware, and some for noble use, some for ignoble" (2 Tim
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	790 2:19). And so we see a diversified order: the mercy of God shines forth in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	791 those whom, without any previous merits, he prepares for grace; in others we
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	792 see the justice of God when, because of their own guilt, he allots them
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	793 punishment, yet less than is deserved. So, I have chosen you by predestining
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	794 you from all eternity, and by calling you to the faith during your lifetime.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	795
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	796 <p>2025 Then he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	797 points out for what he has chosen them when he says, <b>I appointed you that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	798 you should go and bear fruit. </b>First, he states for what he chose them;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	799 secondly, he gives a reason for the above (v 17). In regard to the first he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	800 does two things: first, he shows that he chose them to do something; secondly,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	801 that he <b>chose them to receive something, whatever you ask the Father.</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	802
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	803 <p>2026 He says, <b>I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	804 appointed you, </b>that is, I gave you a definite rank in my Church: "And God
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	805 has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets" (1 Cor 12:28).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	806 Again, <b>I appointed you, </b>that is, firmly set you: "And God made the two
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	807 great lights ... and God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	808 upon the earth" (Gen 1:16).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	809
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	810 <p>2027 <b>I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	811 appointed you, </b>I say, to three things. First to go; and so he says, <b>that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	812 you should go, </b>traveling over the whole world to convert the whole world to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	813 the faith: "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	814 (Mk 16:15). Or, <b>that you should go, </b>that is, progress from virtue to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	815 virtue: "They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	816 Zion" (Ps 84:7); "His shoots shall spread out" (Hos 14:6).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	817
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	818 <p>Secondly,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	819 he appointed them to bear fruit; so he says, <b>and bear fruit. </b>This fruit
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	820 is the fruit of conversion to the faith, as in Paul's first journey, "In order
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	821 that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	822 Gentiles" (Rom 1:13); or an interior and spiritual fruit, as in his second
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	823 journey, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace" (Gal 5:22); "My blossoms
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	824 became glorious and abundant fruit" (Sir 24:17).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	825
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	826 <p>Thirdly,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	827 they were appointed to bear fruit that would not be destroyed by death or sin;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	828 so he says, <b>and that your fruit should abide, </b>that is, that the society
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	829 of the faithful would be led into eternal life and their spiritual fruit
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	830 flourish: "He gathers fruit for eternal life" (4:36).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	831
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	832 <p>2028 <b>So that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	833 whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. </b>Here he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	834 shows that he chose them to receive something, namely, all that they ask for.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	835 He is saying: I have appointed you to be worthy to receive from the Father in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	836 my name: "If our hearts do not condemn us we have confidence before God; and we
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	837 receive from him whatever we ask" (1 Jn 3:22).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	838
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	839 <p>2029 <b>These
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	840 things I command you so that you will love one another. </b>Here he is giving
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	841 the reason for what he has said. Someone might ask: Why did Christ tell them
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	842 all these things? So our Lord answers, <b>These things I command you so that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	843 you will love one another. </b>He is saying in effect: Everything I said to you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	844 was to lead you to love your neighbor: "The aim of our charge is love" (1 Tim
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	845 1:5). One could also say, with Chrysostom, that the apostles could have said:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	846 Lord, why are you reminding us so much about your love? Are you reprimanding
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	847 us? But our Lord says: Not at all. I am doing this to encourage you to love
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	848 your neighbor: "And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	849 should love his brother also" (1 Jn 4:21).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	850 <BR><BR><BR>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	851 <p align=center><B>LECTURE 4
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	852
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	853 <BLOCKQUOTE><p>18 "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	854 before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	855 but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	856 therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, 'A
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	857 servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	858 persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	859 they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me."</B></BLOCKQUOTE>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	860
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	861 <p>2030 After
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	862 presenting the picture of the vine and the branches and explaining the part
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	863 about the branches being united to the vine, he now explains it in regard to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	864 the pruning or cleansing they will receive from their trials. So our Lord now
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	865 consoles them against the tribulations they were going to endure. First, he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	866 mentions a few considerations which will console them; secondly, he explains
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	867 these (v 20); thirdly, he rejects the excuses of those who will persecute them
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	868 (v 22). He mentions two reasons why they should be consoled: the first uses
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	869 himself as an example; the second is based on the reason for their being hated,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	870 <b>because you are not of the world.</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	871
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	872 <p>2031 Our Lord
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	873 consoles them by using himself as an example of one who has suffered the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	874 persecution of oppressors, saying, <b>If the world hates you, know that it has
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	875 hated me before it hated you. </b>Note that just as the source of all benefits
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	876 is love, so the source of all persecutions is hatred. And so our Lord foretells
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	877 that they will be hated: "You will be hated by all nations" (Mt 24:9); "Blessed
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	878 are you when men hate you" (Lk 6:22).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	879
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	880 <p>He
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	881 says, <b>If the world hates you</b>, that is, it will come to pass that the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	882 world will hate you, and show its hatred by persecuting you, <b>know that it
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	883 has hated me before it hated you: </b>"The world cannot hate you, but it hates
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	884 me" (7:7). This thought is a great consolation for the just so that they can
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	885 courageously endure persecutions: "Consider him who endured from sinners such
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	886 hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted" (Heb
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	887 12:3); "Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	888 follow in his steps" (1 Pet 2:21). According to Augustine, the members should
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	889 not consider themselves greater than the Head, nor refuse to be part of his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	890 body by being unwilling to endure with their Head the hatred of the world.<a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	891 href="#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20">[20]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	892
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	893 <p>2032 The world
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	894 can have two meanings. First a good meaning, for those who lead a good life in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	895 the world: "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself" (2 Cor 5:19).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	896 Secondly, it can have an evil sense, meaning those who love the world: "The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	897 whole world is in the power of the evil one" (1 Jn 5:19). And so the whole
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	898 world hates the whole world, because those who love the world, and they are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	899 spread throughout the whole world, hate the whole world, that is, the Church of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	900 the good, which has been established throughout the whole world.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	901
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	902 <p>2033 Now he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	903 mentions a second point for their consolation, and this is based on the reason
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	904 for their being hated. When a person endures another's hatred because of his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	905 own sins, there is reason for regret and sorrow; but when he is hated because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	906 of his virtue he should rejoice. First, our Lord gives the reason why some are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	907 loved by the world; secondly, why the apostles are hated by the world (v 19).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	908
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	909 <p>2034 The reason
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	910 why some are loved by the world is that they are like the world; <b>If you were
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	911 of the world, the world would love its own. </b>Like loves like: "Every
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	912 creature loves its like" (Sir 13:15). And thus the world, that is, those who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	913 love the world, love those who love the world. Accordingly, our Lord says, <b>If
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	914 you were of the world</b>, that is, followers of the world, <b>the world would
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	915 love its own, </b>because you would be its own and like to it: "The world
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	916 cannot hate you, but it hates me" (7:7). "They are of the world, therefore what
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	917 they say is of the world, and the world listens to them" (I Jn 4:5).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	918
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	919 <p>2035 One might
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	920 object that our Lord meant by the world the authorities of the world, who would
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	921 persecute the apostles. Yet these very same authorities persecute other worldly
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	922 people, like murderers and thieves. Therefore, the world does not love its own
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	923 any more than it loves the apostles.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	924
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	925 <p>I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	926 reply that it is possible to find something purely good, but not something
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	927 purely evil, since the subject of evil is something good. Consequently, the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	928 evil of guilt is located in some good of nature. Therefore, no person can be a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	929 sinner and evil without having some good. So it is because of the evil of these
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	930 authorities, the evil of their unbelief, that they belong to the world and hate
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	931 the apostles and those who are not of the world. But because of the good they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	932 possess they are not of the world and hate those who are of the world, as
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	933 thieves and robbers, and such. Still, there were some who were living well in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	934 the world yet loved the apostles and approved of their actions.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	935
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	936 <p>2036 But now
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	937 there seems to be a greater difficulty. For every sin pertains to the world,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	938 and so a person is of the world by reason of any sin. Yet we observe that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	939 people who commit the same sin hate each other, for, example, the proud: "Among
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	940 the proud there is always strife" [Prv 13:10]. And one greedy person hates
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	941 another who is also greedy. As the Philosopher says, potters quarrel with one
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	942 another.<a href="#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21">[21]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	943 Thus, the world is hating the world, and what our Lord says here does not seem
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	944 to be true, that is, <b>the world would love its own.</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	945
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	946 <p>I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	947 reply that there are two kinds of love: the love of friendship and the love of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	948 concupiscence. These are quite different. With the love of concupiscence we
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	949 draw external things or persons to ourselves, and we love these others insofar
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	950 as they are useful to us or give us pleasure. But in the love of friendship we
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	951 have the opposite, for we draw ourselves to what is external to us, because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	952 those we love in this way we treat the same as ourselves, sharing ourselves
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	953 with them in some way. Thus, likeness is a cause of love, when we are speaking
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	954 of the love of friendship, for we do not love a person in this way unless we
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	955 are one with that person: and likeness is a certain way of being one. But with
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	956 the love of concupiscence, whether it is for what is useful or gives pleasure,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	957 likeness is a cause of division and hated. For since with this love I love some
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	958 person or thing insofar as it is useful to me or gives me pleasure, I hate as
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	959 opposed to me whatever hinders this usefulness or pleasure. So it is that the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	960 proud feud among themselves, for one takes for himself the glory that another
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	961 loves and in which he takes pleasure. As for the potters, they quarrel because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	962 one takes for himself some profit which another wants for himself.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	963
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	964 <p>Notice
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	965 that the love of concupiscence is not a love for the thing desired but a love
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	966 for the person desiring: for in this kind of love, one loves another because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	967 the other is useful, as was said. Therefore, in this kind of love, one is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	968 rather loving himself than the other. For example, a person who loves wine
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	969 because it gives him pleasure loves himself rather than the wine. But the love
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	970 of friendship is concerned rather with the thing loved than with the one
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	971 loving, because here one loves another for the sake of the one loved, and not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	972 for the sake of the one loving. And so because in the love of friendship
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	973 likeness is a cause of love, and unlikeness a cause of hatred, the world hates
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	974 what is not its own and is unlike it; but it loves, with the love of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	975 friendship, what is its own. It is the reverse with the love of concupiscence.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	976 Thus he says, <b>If you were of the world, the world would love its own, </b>with
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	977 the love of friendship.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	978
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	979 <p>2037 Now he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	980 gives the reason why the world hates the apostles, which is because they are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	981 unlike the world. He says, <b>but because you are not of the world, </b>because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	982 your spirit has been lifted above it ‑ although you are of the world by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	983 your origin: "You are from below, I am from above" (8:23) ‑ lifted above
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	984 it not by yourselves but by my grace, because <b>I chose you out of the world, </b>therefore,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	985 because you are not of the world, <b>the world hates you, </b>that is, those
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	986 who love the world and who are unlike you, hate you: "An unjust man is an
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	987 abomination to the righteous, but he whose way is straight is an abomination to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	988 the wicked" (Prv 29:27); and in the same chapter "Bloodthirsty men hate one who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	989 is blameless" (v 10).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	990
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	991 <p>2038 Three
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	992 reasons can be given why the world hates those who are holy. First, there is a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	993 difference of condition: the world is in a state of death, but those who are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	994 holy are in a state of life: "Do not wonder, brethren, that the world hates
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	995 you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	996 brethren" (1 Jn 3:13). And so we read: "The very sight of him is a burden to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	997 us" (Wis 2:15). The second reason is that the world does not like to be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	998 corrected: for those who are holy are, by their words and actions, a rebuke to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	999 the conduct of the world. Consequently the world hates them: "They hate him who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1000 reproves in the gate" (Amos 5:10); "But it," the world, "hates me because I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1001 testify of it that its works are evil" (7:7). The third reason is because of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1002 evil envy, for those who are evil envy the good when they see them grow and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1003 increase in goodness and holiness, just like the Egyptians hated and persecuted
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1004 the children of Israel when they saw them increasing (Ex 1:9). And we also see
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1005 that Joseph's brothers hated him when they saw that he was loved more than they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1006 (Gen 37:4).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1007
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1008 <p>2039 Now he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1009 amplifies on the reasons just given for their consolation: first, the one using
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1010 himself as an example; secondly, the one relating to the reason why they are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1011 hated (v 21). He does two things with the first: first, he reminds them that he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1012 and they are different in condition; secondly, he shows they are alike in what
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1013 will be done to them, <b>If they persecuted me, they will persecute you</b>.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1014
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1015 <p>2040 Their
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1016 different conditions were that Christ was the Lord and the apostles were
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1017 servants: "A servant is not greater than his master" (13:16). He reminds them
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1018 of this difference when he says, <b>Remember the word that I said to you, A
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1019 servant is not greater than his master. </b>Therefore, it is not unfitting for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1020 you to undergo the same sufferings as your Lord; rather, you should regard this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1021 as a great glory. Thus Christ said to the disciples who were asking to sit on
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1022 his right and left, "Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?" (Mt
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1023 20:22). "It is a great honor to follow God" (Sir 23:28); "It is enough for the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1024 disciple to be like his teacher" (Mt 10:25).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1025
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1026 <p>2041 On the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1027 contrary. He said above, "No longer do I call you servants" (15:15), while he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1028 says here, <b>A servant is not greater than his master. </b>I answer that there
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1029 are two kinds of servitude. One comes from a slave‑like fear, that is,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1030 from a fear of punishment; and the Apostles were not servants in this way. The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1031 other comes from a "chaste fear," [the respect of a spouse], and such servitude
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1032 was in the apostles: "Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1033 when he comes" (Lk 12:37).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1034
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1035 <p>2042 If then you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1036 are my servants and I am your Lord, you should be content to have happen to you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1037 what happens to me. Now some have despised me, while others have accepted me: "He
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1038 came to his own home, and his own people received him not. But to all who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1039 received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1040 God" (1:11). You will be treated the same way: if some despise you, yet others
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1041 will honor you.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1042
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1043 <p>For
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1044 this reason he says, <b>If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. </b>Here
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1045 we see how the saints are like Christ: for the disciples were persecuted for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1046 the same reason that Christ was, because Christ was being persecuted in the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1047 disciples. In fact in Acts (9:4) Christ said that he was being persecuted in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1048 the persecution of his disciples: "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1049
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1050 <p>And
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1051 so because their reason for acting is the same in the two cases, the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1052 consequence follows: <b>If they persecuted me, they will persecute you: </b>"If
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1053 they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1054 malign those of his household" (Mt 10:25). Matthew (23:34) says of this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1055 persecution: "Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1056 whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1057 and persecute from to town to town." Similarly, they will be honored for the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1058 same reason that Christ was: if they kept my word, they will keep yours also,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1059 because your words are my words: "You desire proof that Christ is speaking in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1060 me" (2 Cor 13:3); "For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1061 speaking through you" (Mt 10:20). And so Christ says, "He who hears you hears
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1062 me" (Lk 10:16). The apostles were in truth accepted and honored by some of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1063 people, as is clear from "When you received the word of God which you heard
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1064 from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1065 word of God" (1 Thess 2: 13).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1066
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1067 <p>2043 Now he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1068 amplifies on the second consideration that would console them, which is based
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1069 on the reason for their being hated. The apostles were chosen and raised above
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1070 the world insofar as they had been made sharers of divinity and joined to God.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1071 This is why the world hated them. From this it follows that the world rather
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1072 hated God in them than hated them. The reason for this hatred was that the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1073 world lacked the true knowledge of God which comes from the true faith and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1074 devoted love. If they did have this knowledge and recognized that the apostles
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1075 were friends of God, they would not have persecuted them. Thus he says, <b>all
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1076 this they will do to you, </b>that is, hate and persecute you, <b>on my account</b>.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1077 And so this should be your glory: "Let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1078 thief, or a wrongdoer, or a mischief‑maker; yet if one suffers as a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1079 Christian, let him not be ashamed, but under that name let him glorify God" (1
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1080 Pet 4:14). On my account, not because they love me, but because they hate me;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1081 just as, on the contrary, you will suffer on my account because you love me.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1082
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1083 <p>They
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1084 will do these things to you <b>because they do not know him who sent me</b>:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1085 "If you knew me, you would perhaps know my Father also" [8:19]. For they did
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1086 not know that God would be pleased by their accepting Christ. Note that he is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1087 speaking here of a perfect knowledge, which consists in a faith which perfects
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1088 the intellect and joins the affections to God. We read of this kind of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1089 knowledge: "Let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1090 me" (Jer 9:24); "To know you is complete righteousness" (Wis 15:3).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1091 <BR><BR><BR>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1092 <p align=center><B>LECTURE 5
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1093
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1094 <BLOCKQUOTE><p>22 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1095 have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates me hates
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1096 my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1097 did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1098 Father. 25 It is to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1099 me without a cause.' 26 But when the Counselor [Paraclete] comes, whom I shall
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1100 send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1101 Father, he will bear witness to me. 27 And you also are witnesses, because you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1102 have been with me from the beginning."<a href="#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1103 title="">[22]</a></B></BLOCKQUOTE>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1104
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1105 <p>2044 Before,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1106 when our Lord said that the Jews would persecute his disciples, he give as the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1107 reason that the Jews did not know the one who sent him. Now, since ignorance
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1108 usually excuses one, he here shows that they are inexcusable. He does this in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1109 two ways: first, because of the things he personally did and taught them;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1110 secondly, because of what will occur when he is no longer present (v 26). In
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1111 regard to the first he does two things: first, he shows that they were without
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1112 excuse because of the truth he taught; secondly, because of the witness of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1113 works he performed (v 24). He does three things about the first: first, he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1114 shows what could have excused them; secondly, that they did not have this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1115 excuse (v 22); thirdly, he shows the real source of their persecution (v 23).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1116
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1117 <p>2045 He had
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1118 said: "But all this they will do to you on my account." Yet they might have had
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1119 an excuse. <b>If I had not come and spoken to them, </b>that is, if I had not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1120 shown myself personally and taught them personally, <b>they would not have sin.</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1121
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1122 <p>2046 How does
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1123 this reconcile with Romans (3:23) which states that "All have sinned"? We
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1124 should say that our Lord is not speaking here of just any sin, but of the sin
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1125 of disbelief, that is, they do not believe in Christ. This is called here
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1126 simply "sin" because it is a prime example of sin, because as long as this sin
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1127 lasts, no other sin can be remitted; for no sin is remitted except by faith in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1128 Jesus Christ through whom we are justified, as we read in Romans (5:1).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1129 Consequently, <b>they would not have sin </b>means that they would not be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1130 charged with not believing in him. This is primarily because "faith comes from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1131 what is heard" (Rom 10:17). So, if Christ had not come and had not spoken to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1132 them, they could not have believed. And no one is charged with a sin for not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1133 doing what he can't do at all.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1134
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1135 <p>2047 Yet some
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1136 could say that they were bound to believe and could have believed even if
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1137 Christ had not come, since he had been foretold to them by the prophets: "which
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1138 he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, the gospel
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1139 concerning his Son" (Rom 1:2). I answer that of themselves the Jews could not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1140 believe and understand the words of the prophets unless they were shown by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1141 divine help: "The words are shut up and sealed until the appointed time" [Dan
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1142 12:9]. Thus the eunuch said: "How can I understand, unless some one guides me?"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1143 (Acts 8:31).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1144
33 d79bd8213f32 remove pIndent ht parents: 31 diff changeset	1145 <p>Therefore, if Christ had not come, they would not
31 25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1146 have this sin, the sin of disbelief, although they would have had other actual
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1147 sins for which they would have been punished. And a similar reasoning holds for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1148 all those whom the preaching of God's word could not reach. For this reason
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1149 they cannot be charged with the sin of disbelief for their condemnation; but
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1150 they will be condemned, because deprived of God's favors because of their other
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1151 actual sins and original sin.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1152
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1153 <p>2048 Note that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1154 Christ's coming and teaching resulted in good for many, that is, for those who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1155 accepted him and kept his word. And for many it turned out bad, that is, for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1156 those who decided neither to listen to him nor believe him. "He will become ...
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1157 a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1158 a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem" (Is 8:14); "This child is set for the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1159 fall and rising of many in Israel" (Lk 2:34).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1160
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1161 <p>2049 He has just
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1162 stated what could have excused them from unbelief. But they don't have this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1163 excuse because Christ showed himself to them in person and taught them. Thus he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1164 says, <b>but now, </b>since I have come and spoken to them, <b>they have no
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1165 excuse</b>, that of ignorance, <b>for their sin. </b>"So they are without
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1166 excuse; for although they knew God they did not honor him as God" (Rom 1:20).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1167 But they did know Christ, as is clear from Matthew (21:38): "This is the heir;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1168 come, let us kill him." However, they knew that he was the Christ promised in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1169 the law, but they did not know that he was God, because "If they had, they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1170 would not have crucified the Lord of glory" (1 Cor 2:8). And so their ignorance
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1171 is no excuse, because they did not do this from ignorance but from another
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1172 root, that is, from hatred and a certain malice.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1173
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1174 <p>2050 This is why
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1175 he adds, <b>He who hates me hates my Father also. </b>This is like saying:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1176 Their sin is not ignorance of me, but hatred for me, and this involves hatred
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1177 for the Father. Since the Son and the Father are one in essence, truth and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1178 goodness, and since all knowledge of anyone is through the truth which is in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1179 him, whoever loves the Son loves the Father also; and whoever knows the one
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1180 knows the other also; and whoever hates the Son hates the Father also.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1181
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1182 <p>2051 Two
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1183 problems arise here. First, whether anyone can hate God? We should say that no
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1184 one can hate God as God. Since God is the pure essence of goodness, and since
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1185 this is lovable in itself, it is impossible that God be hated in himself. This
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1186 is the reason why it is impossible for an evil person to see God. For it is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1187 impossible for God to be seen without being loved; and one who loves God is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1188 good. So these two things are incompatible, namely, to see God and be evil.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1189
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1190 <p>Yet
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1191 one can hate God from a particular point of view. For example, one who loves
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1192 lustful pleasures hates God as forbidding the enjoyment of lust, and one who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1193 wants to be free from all punishment hates the justice of God when it punishes.<a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1194 href="#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23">[23]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1195
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1196 <p>2052 The second
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1197 problem arises because no once can hate what he does not know. But the Jews did
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1198 not know the Father: "They do not know him who sent me" (15:21). Therefore,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1199 what he says here does not seem to be true, that they <b>hate my Father also. </b>We
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1200 can say, according to Augustine, that a person can love or hate something that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1201 was never seen nor truly known.<a href="#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24">[24]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1202 This can happen in two ways. In one way, I can hate or love a person according
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1203 as I know him; or, according to what I am told about him. For example, if I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1204 hear that someone is a thief I hate him, not because I know or hate this very
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1205 person, but because in general I hate all thieves. So, if he were a thief and I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1206 did not know it, I would hate him without knowing that I hated him. Now the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1207 Jews hated Christ and the truth that he preached. Since the very truth that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1208 Christ preached and the works he performed were in the will of God the Father,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1209 then just as they hated Christ, so also they hated the Father, even though they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1210 did not know that these things were in the will of the Father.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1211
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1212 <p>2053 Now he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1213 shows they are without excuse because of the witness of his signs. They could
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1214 say that they were not convinced by the words he spoke in opposition to them.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1215 So he corroborates his words with marvelous actions, saying, <b>If I had not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1216 done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin. </b>First,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1217 he shows that they could be somewhat excused; secondly, he reveals the root of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1218 their sin (v 24b); thirdly, he cites an authority (v 25).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1219
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1220 <p>2054 There are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1221 two questions about the first point. One is about the truth of the antecedent
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1222 statement, <b>If I had not done among them the works which no one else did. </b>Did
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1223 Christ perform certain good works among them that no one else had done? It
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1224 seems not. If we say that Christ raised the dead, Elijah and Elisha also did
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1225 this. If Christ walked on the water, Moses parted the waters. Again, Joshua did
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1226 something greater [than Christ] for he made the sun stand still. So it seems
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1227 that Christ should not use this as an argument, and thus the conclusion is not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1228 true.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1229
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1230 <p>I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1231 answer that we can say, according to Augustine, that our Lord is not speaking
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1232 of the miracles he worked among them, that is, merely in their sight, but of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1233 those he worked "among" them, that is, on their very persons.<a href="#_ftn25"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1234 name="_ftnref25">[25]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1235 In curing the sick, although others did it, no one did it so much as Christ,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1236 because no other was made God and no one was born of a virgin but Christ. So in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1237 healing the sick he performed among them works which no one else performed; and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1238 this in three ways. First, because his works were so great: for he raised a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1239 person who had been dead for four days; he gave sight to a man who was born
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1240 blind, which had never been heard of before, as we read above (9:32). Secondly,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1241 because of the great number of his works, for he healed all who were sick (Mt
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1242 14:35), and no one else did this. Thirdly, because of the way he did these
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1243 works: others did these things by praying for help, which showed that they were
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1244 not doing this by their own power; but Christ did it by command, for he did it
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1245 by his own power: "What is this? A new teaching! With authority he commands
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1246 even the unclean spirits, and they obey him" (Mk 1:27).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1247
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1248 <p>Therefore,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1249 although others have raised the dead and have accomplished other miracles which
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1250 Christ did, they did not do it in the same manner as Christ, nor by their own
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1251 power, as Christ did. Further, making the sun stand still is less than what the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1252 dying Christ did, when he made the moon move backwards and changed the whole
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1253 course of the heavens, as Dionysius says.<a href="#_ftn26" name="_ftnref26"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1254 title="">[26]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1255
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1256 <p>2055 The second
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1257 question is about the truth of the conditional statement, that if Christ had
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1258 not done among them works which no one else did, the Jews would not have the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1259 sin of disbelief. My reply is that if we speak of any of the miracles
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1260 indiscriminately, the Jews would have been excusable if they had not been done
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1261 among them by Christ. For no one can come to Christ by faith unless he is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1262 drawn: "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him" (6:44).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1263 So the spouse says in the Song (1:4): "Draw me after you." Therefore, if there
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1264 were no one who had drawn them to the faith, they would have an excuse for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1265 their disbelief. Note that Christ drew by words and by signs, both visible and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1266 invisible, that is, by inciting and stirring hearts from within: "The king's
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1267 heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord" (Prv 21:1). And so an inner
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1268 impulse to act well is the work of God, and those who resist it sin. If not,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1269 Stephen would have no reason to say: "You always resist the Holy Spirit" (Acts
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1270 7:51). And Isaiah (50:5) says: "The Lord has opened my ear," that is, the ear
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1271 of my heart, "and I was not rebellious." When our Lord said, <b>If I had not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1272 done among them the works which no one else did, </b>we have to understand this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1273 as referring not only to visible works but also to the interior impulses and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1274 attractions to his teaching. If these had not been done among them, they would
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1275 not have sin. It is now clear how they could have been excused, that is, if he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1276 had not accomplished miraculous works among them.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1277
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1278 <p>2056 Now he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1279 shows the root of their sin of disbelief, namely, their hatred, because of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1280 which they did not believe the works they saw. He says, <b>but now they have seen,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1281 </b>the works he did among them, <b>and hated both me and my Father: </b>"Because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1282 they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord" (Prv 1:29). As
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1283 Gregory says, there are some in the Church who not only do not do good works,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1284 but they even persecute those who do, so that what they fail to do they detest
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1285 in others.<a href="#_ftn27" name="_ftnref27">[27]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1286 Thus their sin is not one of weakness or ignorance, but is committed of set
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1287 purpose.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1288
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1289 <p>2057 Yet some
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1290 could say: If it is true that the Jews hated you and your Father, why did you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1291 perform miracles among them? He answers and says <b>It is to fulfill the word
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1292 that is written in their law. </b>Here we could ask why he says that this was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1293 written in their law when it was written in the Psalms? We can say to this that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1294 the "law" is understood in three ways in scripture. Sometimes it is taken for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1295 the entire Old Testament; and this is the way it is understood here, because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1296 the entire teaching of the Old Testament is directed to the observance of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1297 law: "Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom" (Lk 23:42). Sometimes
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1298 it is taken as distinguished from the histories and the prophets: "that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1299 everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1300 psalms" (in which the histories are sometimes included) "must be fulfilled" (Lk
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1301 24:44). And sometimes the law is taken as distinct only from the prophets, and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1302 then the histories are included in the prophets. He says, <b>It is to fulfill
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1303 what is written in their law, </b>that is, in the Psalms (35:19) <b>'They hated
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1304 me without a cause,'</b> and not to gain some benefit or avoid some trouble
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1305 (for this is why people hate). Indeed, Christ gave them opportunities to love
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1306 him when he healed and taught them: "He went about doing good" (Acts 10:38);
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1307 "Is evil a recompense for good? They have dug a pit for my life" (Jer 18:20);
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1308 "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me" (Jer 2:5).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1309
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1310 <p>2058 Now he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1311 shows that they are inexcusable because of what will come to pass after him:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1312 because they would have other testimonies, namely, those of the Holy Spirit and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1313 of the apostles. First, he states what was to come from the Holy Spirit;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1314 secondly, from the apostles (v 27). He indicates four things about the Spirit:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1315 his freedom, tenderness, procession and activity.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1316
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1317 <p>2059 He
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1318 indicates his freedom, or power, when he says, <b>But when the Paraclete comes.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1319 </b>Strictly speaking that person is said to come who comes willingly and on
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1320 his own authority; and this is true of the Holy Spirit, because "the Spirit
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1321 blows where it wills" [3:8]; "I called upon God, and the Spirit of wisdom came
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1322 to me" (Wis 7:7). Therefore, in saying, <b>whom I shall send, </b>he does not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1323 suggest force but origin.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1324
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1325 <p>2060 He touches
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1326 on his tenderness when he says, <b>the Paraclete</b>, that is the Consoler.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1327 Since the Paraclete is the Love of God he makes us scorn earthly things and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1328 cling to God; and thus he takes away our pain and sadness and gives us joy in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1329 divine things: "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace" (Gal 5:22); and in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1330 Acts (9:31) we read that the Church was walking "in the comfort of the Holy
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1331 Spirit."
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1332
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1333 <p>2061 Thirdly, he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1334 touches on the twofold procession of the Holy Spirit. First, he mentions the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1335 temporal procession when he says, <b>whom I shall send to you from the Father. </b>Note
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1336 that the Holy Spirit is said to be sent not because the Spirit is changing
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1337 place, since the Spirit fills the entire universe, as we read in Wisdom (1:7),
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1338 but because, by grace, the Holy Spirit begins to dwell in a new way in those he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1339 makes a temple of God: "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1340 God's Spirit dwells in you?" (1 Cor 3:16). There is no disagreement in saying
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1341 that the Holy Spirit is sent and that he comes. In saying that the Spirit comes
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1342 the grandeur of his divinity is indicated: the "Spirit, who apportions to each
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1343 one individually as he wills" (1 Cor 12:11). And he is said to be sent to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1344 indicate his procession from another, for the fact that he sanctifies the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1345 rational creature by indwelling he has from that other, from whom he has it
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1346 that he is, just as it is from another that the Son has whatever he does.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1347
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1348 <p>The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1349 Holy Spirit is sent by the Father and the Son together; and this is indicated
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1350 in "He showed me the river of the water of life," that is, the Holy Spirit,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1351 "flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb," that is, of Christ (Rev
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1352 22:1). Therefore, when speaking of the sending of the Holy Spirit he mentions
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1353 the Father and the Son, who send the Spirit by the same and equal power. Thus
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1354 sometimes he mentions the Father as sending the Spirit, but not without the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1355 Son, as above (14:26): "The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name";
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1356 at other times he says that he himself sends the Holy Spirit, but not without
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1357 the Father: as here, <b>whom I shall send to you from the Father, </b>because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1358 whatever the Son does he has from the Father: "The Son cannot do anything of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1359 himself" [5:19].<a href="#_ftn28" name="_ftnref28">[28]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1360
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1361 <p>2062 He mentions
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1362 the eternal procession of the Holy Spirit when he shows in a similar way that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1363 the Spirit is related both to the Father and the Son. He shows the Spirit as
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1364 related to the Son when he says, <b>the Spirit of truth, </b>for the Son is the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1365 Truth: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life" (14:6). He shows the Spirit
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1366 as related to the Father when he says, <b>who proceeds from the Father. </b>So
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1367 to say that the Holy Spirit is <b>the Spirit of truth, </b>is the same as
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1368 saying the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Son: "God has sent the Spirit of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1369 his Son into our hearts" (Gal 4:6). And because the word "spirit" (<i>spiritus</i>)
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1370 suggests a kind of impulse and every motion produces an effect in harmony with
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1371 its source (as heating makes something hot), it follows that the Holy Spirit
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1372 makes those to whom he is sent like the one whose Spirit he is. And since he is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1373 the Spirit of Truth "He will teach you all truth" [16:13]; "The inspiration of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1374 the Almighty gives understanding" [Job 32:8]. In the same way, because he is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1375 the Spirit of the Son, he produces sons: "You have received the spirit of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1376 sonship" (Rom 8:15). He says the <b>Spirit of truth </b>as contrasted with the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1377 spirit of lying: "The Lord has mingled within her the spirit of error" [Is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1378 19:14]; "I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1379 prophets" (1 Kgs 22:22).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1380
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1381 <p>2063 Because he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1382 says <b>who proceeds from the Father </b>and does not add "and from the Son,"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1383 the Greeks say that the Holy Spirit does not proceed from the Son but only from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1384 the Father. But this absolutely cannot be. For the Holy Spirit could not be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1385 distinguished from the Son unless he either proceeds from the Son, or on the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1386 other hand, the Son proceeds from him (and no one claims this). For one cannot
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1387 say that among the divine persons, who are entirely immaterial and simple,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1388 there is a material distinction based on a division of quantity, which matter
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1389 underlies. Thus it is necessary that the distinction of the divine persons be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1390 by way of a formal distinction, which has to involve some kind of opposition.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1391 For if forms are not opposed they are compatible with one another in the same
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1392 subject and do not diversify a supposit; for example, to be white and large. So
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1393 among the divine persons, since "not subject to birth" and "fatherhood" are not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1394 opposed, they belong to one person. If, then, the Son and the Holy Spirit are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1395 distinct persons proceeding from the Father, they have to be distinguished by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1396 some properties that are opposed. These properties cannot be opposed like
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1397 affirmation and negation or privation and possessing are opposed, because then
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1398 the Son and the Holy Spirit would be related to one another like being and non‑being
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1399 and as the complete to the deprived, and this is repugnant to their equality.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1400 Nor can these properties be opposed like contraries are opposed, one of which
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1401 is more perfect than the other. What remains is that the Holy Spirit is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1402 distinguished from the Son only by a relative opposition.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1403
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1404 <p>This
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1405 kind of opposition rests solely on the fact that one of them is referred to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1406 other. For the different relations of two things to some third thing are not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1407 directly opposed except accidentally, that is by some incidental consequence.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1408 So in order for the Holy Spirit to be distinguished from the Son, they must
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1409 have relations that are opposed, by which they will be opposed to each other.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1410 No such relations can be found except relations of origin, insofar as one
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1411 person is from the other. Thus it is impossible, granting the Trinity of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1412 persons, that the Holy Spirit not be from the Son.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1413
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1414 <p>2064 Some say
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1415 that the Holy Spirit and the Son are distinguished by the different ways they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1416 proceed, insofar as the Son is from the Father by being born and the Holy
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1417 Spirit by proceeding. But the same problem still returns which arose from the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1418 previous opinion, as to how these two processions differ. One cannot say that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1419 they are distinguished because of the diverse things received by their
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1420 respective generations, like the generation of a human being and a horse differ
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1421 because of the diverse natures that are communicated. For the very same nature
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1422 is received by the Son by being born from the Father and by the Holy Spirit by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1423 proceeding. So we are left with the conclusion that they are distinguished only
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1424 by the order of origin, that is to say, insofar as the birth of the Son is a principle
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1425 of the procession of the Holy Spirit. And so, if the Holy Spirit were not from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1426 the Son, the Spirit would not be distinguished from the Son and procession
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1427 would not be distinguished from birth.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1428
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1429 <p>Thus
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1430 even the Greeks admit some order between the Son and the Holy Spirit. For they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1431 say that the Holy Spirit is of the Son, and that the Son acts through the Holy
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1432 Spirit, but not conversely. And some even admit that the Holy Spirit is from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1433 the Son, but they will not concede that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1434 Yet in this they are obviously imprudent. For we use the word "procession" in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1435 all cases in which one thing is from another in any way. And so this word,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1436 because it is so general, has been adapted to indicate the existence of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1437 Holy Spirit as from the Son. We don't have any examples of this in creatures
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1438 which would lead us to give it a specific name; while we do have examples which
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1439 give us the special term of "generation" which is applied to the Son. The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1440 reason for this is that in creatures we do not find a person proceeding from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1441 will, as love, while we do find a person proceeding from nature, as son. Thus,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1442 however the Holy Spirit is ordered to the Son, it can be concluded that the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1443 Spirit proceeds from the Son.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1444
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1445 <p>2065
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1446 Nevertheless some of the Greeks assert that one should not say that the Holy
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1447 Spirit proceeds from the Son because for them the preposition "from" indicates
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1448 a principle which is not from a principle, and this is so only of the Father.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1449 This is not compelling because the Son with the Father is one principle of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1450 Holy Spirit, as also of creatures. And although the Son has it from the Father
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1451 that the Son is a principle of creatures, still creatures are said to be from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1452 the Son; and for the same reason it can be said that the Holy Spirit proceeds
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1453 from the Son.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1454
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1455 <p>Nor
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1456 does it make any difference that we read here,<b> who proceeds from the Father,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1457 </b>instead of "from the Father and the Son," because in a similar way it is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1458 said, <b>whom I shall send</b>, and yet the Father is also understood to send,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1459 since there is added, <b>from the Father. </b>In a similar way because it says,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1460 <b>the Spirit of truth, </b>that is, the Spirit of the Son, we understand that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1461 the Spirit proceeds from the Son. For, as has been said, when the procession of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1462 the Holy Spirit is mentioned, the Son is always joined to the Father, and the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1463 Father to the Son; and so these different ways of expression indicate a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1464 distinction of persons.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1465
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1466 <p>2066 Fourthly,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1467 he mentions the activity of the Holy Spirit when he says, <b>he will bear
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1468 witness to me; </b>and this in three ways. First, the Spirit will teach the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1469 disciples and give them the confidence to bear witness: "For it is not you who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1470 speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you" (Mt 10:20).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1471 Secondly, the Spirit will communicate his teaching to those who believe in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1472 Christ: "God also bore witness by signs and miracles and by gifts of the Holy
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1473 Spirit" wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit" (Heb
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1474 2:4). Thirdly, the Spirit will soften the hearts of their hearers: "When you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1475 send forth your Spirit, they are created" (Ps 104:30).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1476
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1477 <p>2067 Finally, he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1478 mentions what lies ahead for the disciples when he says, <b>and you also are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1479 witnesses, </b>inspired by the Holy Spirit: "You shall be my witnesses in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1480 Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of this earth" (Acts
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1481 1:8). We read of this twofold testimony in Acts (5:32): "We are witnesses to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1482 these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1483 him."
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1484
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1485 <p>He
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1486 adds why this testimony is appropriate when he says, <b>because you have been
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1487 with me from the beginning, </b>that is, the beginning of my preaching and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1488 working of miracles, and so you can testify to what you have seen and heard:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1489 "That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you" (1 Jn 1:3). We can
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1490 see from this that Christ did not perform miracles in his youth, as some
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1491 apocryphal gospels relate but only from the time he called his disciples.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1492
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1493 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1494
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1495 <div><br clear=all>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1496
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25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1498
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1499 <div id=ftn1>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1500
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1501 <p><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">Arial'>[1]</a> "Times New Roman";color:blue'>St. Thomas refers to Jn 15:1
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1502 in the <i>Summa Theologiae:</i> III, q. 74, a. 5, s. c.; Jn 15:3: <i>ST </i>III,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1503 q. 74, a. 5, s. c.; Jn 15:5: <i>ST</i> I-II, q. 6, a. 1, obj. 3; q. 109, a. 6,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1504 ad 2; II-II, q. 156, a. 2, ad 1.<i> </i>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1505
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1506 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1507
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1508 <div id=ftn2>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1509
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1510 <p><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2">[2]</a> <i>Sermones
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1511 de Verbis Domini</i> 61; PL 38, col. 1859;"Times New Roman";color:black'> "Times New Roman";color:green'>cf. <i>Catena Aurea,</i> 15:1-3.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1512
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1513 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1514
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1515 <div id=ftn3>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1516
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1517 <p><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3">[3]</a> <i>Tract. in Io</i>., 80, ch. 3, col. 1839; cf.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1518 <i>Catena Aurea</i>,<i> </i>15:1-3.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1519
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1520 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1521
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1522 <div id=ftn4>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1523
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1524 <p><a href="#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4">[4]</a> Summa-Word of Christ cleanses
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1525 both in faith and baptism.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1526
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1527 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1528
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1529 <div id=ftn5>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1530
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1531 <p><a href="#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5">[5]</a> Summa-it it impossible to do
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1532 any work except by Christ.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1533
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1534 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1535
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1536 <div id=ftn6>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1537
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1538 <p><a href="#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6">[6]</a> Summa-that it is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1539 possible to be united to the Church in faith, but not by charity.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1540
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1541 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1542
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1543 <div id=ftn7>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1544
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1545 <p><a href="#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7">[7]</a> <i>Tract. in Io</i>., 81 ch.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1546 3, col. 1841-2; cf.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1547 <i>Catena Aurea</i>,<i> </i>15:4-7.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1548
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1549 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1550
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1551 <div id=ftn8>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1552
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1553 <p><a href="#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8">[8]</a> St. Thomas
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1554 refers to Jn 15:11 in the <i>Summa Theologiae:</i> II-II, q. 28, a. 3 s. c.; Jn
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1555 15:12: <i>ST</i> I-II, q. 68, a. 1; II-II, q. 22, a. 1. s. c.; Jn 15:13: <i>ST</i>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1556 II-II, q. 26, a. 5, obj. 3; q. 124, a. 2, obj. 2; q. 124, a. 3, q. 184, a. 5,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1557 obj. 3; q. 184, a. 2, ad 3; III, q. 66, a. 12.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1558
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1559 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1560
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1561 <div id=ftn9>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1562
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1563 <p><a href="#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9">[9]</a> <i>Tract. in Io</i>., 82, ch.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1564 4, col. 1844; cf.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1565 <i>Catena Aurea</i>,<i> </i>15:8-11.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1566
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1567 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1568
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1569 <div id=ftn10>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1570
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1571 <p><a href="#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10">[10]</a> <i>Tract. in Io</i>., 83, ch.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1572 1, col. 1844-5; cf.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1573 <i>Catena Aurea</i>,<i> </i>15:8-11.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1574
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1575 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1576
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1577 <div id=ftn11>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1578
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1579 <p><a href="#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11">[11]</a> <i>Homiliae in Evangelista</i>,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1580 XXVII; 1; PL 76, col. 1205B;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1581 cf. <i>Catena Aurea,</i> 15:12-16.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1582
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1583 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1584
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1585 <div id=ftn12>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1586
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1587 <p><a href="#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12">[12]</a> Ibid.; cf. <i>Catena Aurea,</i> 15:12-16.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1588
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1589 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1590
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1591 <div id=ftn13>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1592
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1593 <p><a href="#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13">[13]</a> St. Thomas refers
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1594 to Jn 15:14 in the <i>Summa Theologiae: </i>II-II, q. 23, a. 1, s. c.; Jn
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1595 15:15: <i>ST</i> II-II, q. 172, a. 4, obj. 2; Jn 15:17: <i>ST</i> I, q. 73, a.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1596 2, arg. 1.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1597
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1598 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1599
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1600 <div id=ftn14>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1601
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1602 <p><a href="#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14">[14]</a> <i>Moralia
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1603 XVII</i>, ch. 15, no. 28; PL 76, col. 415B"Times New Roman";color:green'>; cf. <i>Catena Aurea, </i>15:12-16.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1604
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1605 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1606
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1607 <div id=ftn15>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1608
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1609 <p><a href="#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15">[15]</a> <i>In Ioannem hom</i>., 77, ch. 1;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1610 PG 59, col. 415; cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>, 15:12-16.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1611
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1612 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1613
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1614 <div id=ftn16>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1615
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1616 <p><a href="#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16">[16]</a> <i>Tract. in Io</i>., 86, ch.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1617 1, col. 1850; cf.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1618 <i>Catena Aurea</i>,<i> </i>15:12-16.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1619
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1620 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1621
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1622 <div id=ftn17>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1623
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1624 <p><a href="#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17">[17]</a> <i>Homiliae in Evangelista
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1625 XXVII</i>; PL 76; cf. <i>Catena Aurea,</i> 15:12-16.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1626
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1627 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1628
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1629 <div id=ftn18>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1630
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1631 <p><a href="#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18">[18]</a> Summa-God predestines and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1632 calls men not based on their merit.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1633
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1634 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1635
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1636 <div id=ftn19>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1637
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1638 <p><a href="#_ftnref19" name="_ftn19">[19]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1639 Origen.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1640
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1641 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1642
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1643 <div id=ftn20>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1644
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1645 <p><a href="#_ftnref20" name="_ftn20">[20]</a> <i>Tract. in Io</i>., 87, ch.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1646 2, col. 1853; cf.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1647 <i>Catena Aurea</i>,<i> </i>15:17-21.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1648
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1649 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1650
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1651 <div id=ftn21>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1652
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1653 <p><a href="#_ftnref21" name="_ftn21">[21]</a> Aristotle.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1654
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1655 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1656
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1657 <div id=ftn22>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1658
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1659 <p><a href="#_ftnref22" name="_ftn22">[22]</a> St. Thomas
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1660 refers to Jn 15:22 in the <i>Summa Theologiae:</i> II-II, q. 5, a. 2, obj. 3;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1661 q. 10, a. 1; q. 10, a. 3, s. c.; III, q. 47, a. 5; q. 80, a. 5, s. c.; q. 86,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1662 a. 3, ad 2; Jn 15:24: <i>ST</i> II-II, q. 34, a. 1 s. c.; III, q. 43, a. 4, ad
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1663 1; q. 47, a. 5, obj. 2; Jn 15:25: <i>ST</i> II-II, q. 16, a. 1, obj. 5:<i> </i>Jn
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1664 15:26: <i>ST</i> I, q. 27, a. 3, s. c.; q. 36, a. 2, obj 1.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1665
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1666 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1667
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1668 <div id=ftn23>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1669
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1670 <p><a href="#_ftnref23" name="_ftn23">[23]</a> Summa-man can hate God under a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1671 certain aspect.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1672
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1673 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1674
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1675 <div id=ftn24>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1676
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1677 <p><a href="#_ftnref24" name="_ftn24">[24]</a> <i>Tract. in Io</i>., 90, ch. 1,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1678 col. 1858-9; cf.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1679 <i>Catena Aurea</i>,<i> </i>15:22-25.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1680
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1681 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1682
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1683 <div id=ftn25>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1684
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1685 <p><a href="#_ftnref25" name="_ftn25">[25]</a> Ibid., cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>,<i> </i>15:22-25.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1686
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1687 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1688
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1689 <div id=ftn26>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1690
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1691 <p><a href="#_ftnref26" name="_ftn26">[26]</a> Dionysius.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1692
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1693 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1694
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1695 <div id=ftn27>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1696
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1697 <p><a href="#_ftnref27" name="_ftn27">[27]</a> <i>Moralia</i>,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1698 XXV, ch. 11, no. 28; PL 76, col. 339B; "Times New Roman";color:green'>cf. <i>Catena Aurea, </i>15:22-25.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1699
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1700 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1701
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1702 <div id=ftn28>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1703
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1704 <p><a href="#_ftnref28" name="_ftn28">[28]</a> Summa-procession of the Holy
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1705 Spirit from the Father and the Son. 2061-2065.
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