22. Dicit ei Iudas, non ille 22. Judas saith to him, not Iscariotes: Domine, quid the Iscariot: Lord, how is it, factum est quia manifestaturus that thou wilt manifest es nobis teipsum, et non thyself to us, and not to the mundo? world? 23. Respondit Iesus, et dixit 23. Jesus answered, and said ei: Si quis diligit me, to him: If any one love me, he sermonem meum servabit, et will keep my word, and my Pater meus diliget eum, et ad Father will love him, and we eum veniemus, et mansionem will come to him, and will apud eum faciemus: make our abode with him. 22‐23. Asked by the Apostle Jude, brother to James the Less, who was also called Thaddeus, how He would manifest Himself to the Apostles, yet be unseen by the world, Christ replies that He will come and dwell in all that love Him, and thus manifest Himself, and be seen by them in a spiritual manner. 24. Qui non diligit me, 24. He that loveth me not, sermones meos non servat. Et keepeth not my words. And the sermonem quem audistis, non word which you have heard is est meus: sed ejus qui misit not mine; but the Father’s who me, Patris. sent me. 24. He had just said that those who love Him will keep His words and obey them, and now He adds that those who do not love Him will not keep His words. The reason why He here insists upon this observance of His words is, that such observance is necessary, before He will manifest Himself and make His abode in any heart. For, as is clear from verse 21, Christ will manifest Himself only to those who are loved by the Father; but they alone are loved by the Father who love Christ, and they alone love Christ who keep His commandments (verse 23). *And the word which you have heard*, &c. “Sermonem” (Vulg.) ought to be “sermo,” and the verb in the original is in the present (ἀκούετε). The sense, therefore, is: the words which you are _wont to hear_ from Me are not Mine alone, but the Father’s also who sent Me. *Is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.* This form of expression, which seems to declare that the words are in no way Christ’s, is a Hebraism, and means that they are not His alone. See above on vii. 16. Of course the authority of Christ’s words was equal in every way to that of the Father’s, but since the Apostles did not yet fully realize His Divinity with all that it implied, He invokes the Father’s authority as having more weight with them.