*Yet a little while*; _i.e._, a few days more, the light, which is Himself, is to be among them. He exhorts them, therefore, to walk, that is, to believe, while He is present among them, in order that darkness, that is, the time when He is gone from among them, may not find them still in their unbelief. *And* (καί = γάρ) *he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth*. Christ does not mean to say that they could not believe after His death; but just as, though it is quite possible to walk during the time of darkness, still it is easier to walk in daylight, so it was easier for them to believe now, when He, the Sun of Justice was corporally present among them, than it would be when He had withdrawn His light. We take, “darkness,” then, with Mald., not of sin, nor of unbelief, but, as opposed to the light which is Christ, of the time when Christ could be no longer present among them, after His death, as in verse ix. 4; xi. 9, 10. 36. Dum lucem habetis, credite 36. Whilst you have the light, in lucem, ut filii lucis believe in the light, that you sitis. Haec locutus est Iesus: may be the children of light. et abiit, et abscondit se ab These things Jesus spoke, and eis. he went away, and hid himself from them. 36. He now explains what He means by telling them to walk. It is that they should believe. *That you may be* (become) *the children of light*. The phrase “children of light” is a Hebraism, meaning those who are to possess the light, who are destined for it. Compare Luke xvi. 8; Eph. v. 8. *And he went away, and hid himself from them.* SS. Matt. and Mark tell us that He went to Bethania with the twelve and remained there (Matt. xxi. 17; Mark xi. 11). 37. Cum autem tanta signa 37. And whereas he had done so fecisset coram eis, non many miracles before them, credebant in eum: they believed not in him. 38. Ut sermo Isaiae prophetae 38. That the saying of Isaias impleretur, quem dixit: the prophet might be Domine, quis credidit auditui fulfilled, which he said: nostro? et brachium Domini cui _Lord, who hath believed our revelatum est? hearing? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?_ 39. Propterea non poterant 39. Therefore they could not credere, quia iterum dixit believe, because Isaias said Isaias: again. 40. Excaecavit oculos eorum, 40. _He hath blinded their et induravit cor eorum: ut non eyes, and hardened their videant oculis, et non heart, that they should not intelligant corde, et see with their eyes, nor convertantur, et sanem eos. understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them._