27. Ipse enim Pater amat vos, 27. For the Father himself quia vos me amastis, et loveth you, because you have credidistis quia ego a Deo loved me, and have believed exivi. that I came out from God. 28. Exivi a Patre, et veni in 28. I came forth from the mundum: iterum relinquo Father, and am come into the mundum, et vado ad Patrem. world: again I leave the world, and I go to the Father. 28. Taking up the closing words of the preceding verse, He insists upon the truth of what they have believed. For in coming into the world I did come out from God, who is My Father, and now I return to Him in leaving the world, Some commentators refer the words: “I came forth from the Father” to the eternal procession, and the following words to the mission in time; but we think the view we follow more probable; for what is here asserted is what the Apostles had already believed, and we doubt if they yet understood or believed in the eternal procession. 29. Dicunt ei discipuli eius: 29. His disciples say to him: Ecce nunc palam loqueris, et Behold now thou speakest proverbium nullum dicis: plainly, and speakest no proverb. 29. In saying that He was about to leave the world and go to the Father, He spoke plainly, and explained their doubts of verse 17. 30. Nunc scimus quia scis 30. Now we know that thou omnia, et non opus est tibi ut knowest all things, and thou quis te interroget: in hoc needest not that any man credimus quia a Deo existi. should ask thee. By this we believe that thou comest forth from God. 30. Seeing that He had read their thoughts (verse 19), and anticipated their inquiries, even for this reason they declare their faith in Him as the Messias and Son of God to be _confirmed_ and made perfect. 31. Respondit eis Iesus: Modo 31. Jesus answered them: Do creditis? you now believe? 31. Christ’s reply does not deny that they believe; yet insinuates, if we take it interrogatively with the Vulgate, that He had reason to doubt the firmness of the faith they boasted, as indeed He goes on to declare plainly in the following verses. 32. Ecce venit hora, et iam 32. Behold the hour cometh, venit, ut dispergamini and it is now come, that you unusquisque in propria, et me shall be scattered every man solum relinquatis: et non sum to his own, and shall leave me solus, quia Pater mecum est. alone: and yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.