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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
But what is it that He saith, "All that the Father giveth Me shall come unto Me," and "I will raise it up in the last day"? Wherefore speaketh He of the common resurrection, in which even the ungodly have a part, as though it were the peculiar gift of those who believe on Him? Because He speaketh not simply of resurrection, but of a particular kind of resurrection. For having first said, "I will not cast him out, I shall lose nothing of it," He then speaketh of the resurrection. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
He constantly says "The Father has given Me" in order to strike their hearts and so that they would know that they are unworthy of this gift of God. For if the Father gives faith in Christ as something great, and they do not have it, then obviously they have been deprived of the gift of God.
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
For this very reason therefore, I will not cast out Him that cometh to Me; because I came not to do Mine own will. I came to teach humility, by being humble Myself. He that cometh to Me, is made a member of Me, and necessarily humble, because He will not do His own will, but the will of God; and therefore is not cast out. He was cast out, as proud; he returns to Me humble, he is not sent away, except for pride again; he who keeps his humility, falleth not from the truth. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then (v 39), he shows what the Father wills; and next, why he wills it (v 40). He says: I will not cast out those who come to me, because I have taken flesh in order to do the will of the Father: Now it is the will of him who sent me, the Father, that those who come to me I will not cast out; and so I will not cast them out. "This is the will of God, your sanctification" (1 Thes 4:3). …
Bonaventure
"For this is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all that he has given me," through election; Romans 8: "Those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son"; "I should lose nothing of it," through reprobation, according to that passage of First Corinthians 1: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent I will reject." "But should raise it up on the last day," unto participation in eternal beatitude: Romans 8: "If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells …
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