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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. Some of these things were obscure, and not understood by the disciples.
Cyril of Alexandria
Contrariwise, His speech has in it the human element, and is not quite foreign to the standards we apply to ourselves, to the extent that the mind into which it entered was fitted to receive the words before us. Perhaps some one will plausibly say that Christ is not amongst us according to the power of His Godhead, although He fills the Universe and is not wholly separated from anything, but rather encompasses with unspeakable might earth and heaven, and does not leave the depths of the abyss: for where is not God"? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Since the Lord's words were unclear to the disciples, and some of them they did not understand, while about the greater part they had doubts, then, lest they again ask Him and say, which commandments must we keep, He frees them from anxiety and confusion, saying that the Comforter will make what is unclear and difficult to understand easy to understand for you. This, which seems unclear to you, I said while remaining with you and being with you; but if I depart, then you will be taught all things. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
In the preceding lesson of the holy Gospel, which is followed by the one that has just been read, the Lord Jesus had said that He and the Father would come to those who loved Them, and make Their abode with them. But He had also already said above of the Holy Spirit, "But ye shall know Him; for He shall dwell with you, and shall be in you": by which we understood that the divine Trinity dwelleth together in the saints as in His own temple. …
Gregory the Dialogist
"These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you." When would He not abide with them, who, about to ascend to heaven, promises, saying: "Behold, I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world"? But the incarnate Word both abides and departs: He departs in body, He abides in divinity. He declares therefore that He then abided with them, because He who was always present by invisible power was already departing from corporeal sight.
Thomas Aquinas
Here our Lord promises gifts to his disciples. He had promised them both the Holy Spirit and himself; and so now he first mentions what they will receive when the Holy Spirit comes; and secondly, what they will receive from him, peace. From the coming of the Holy Spirit they will receive great things, namely an understanding of all the words of Christ. In regard to this he first mentions what he taught them, and secondly he promises they will understand them (v 26). …
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