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‘In Me You Have Peace'

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2024

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These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress; but have confidence, I have overcome the world.—John 16, 33.

Our Lord unfolds to his disciples the hidden depths of his teaching, and by these words shows how important and helpful it will be to them.

The value of his teaching lies in the peace that it brings to man. In this context, it is as if our Lord were saying: I know well that very soon you will all leave me; but I know that if you really understand my doctrine you will not harden your hearts in desertion. The reason for every thing I have spoken about in my sermon, all that I have taught you throughout the Gospel, is this: that if you do return to me In me you may have peace. For the whole purpose of the Gospel is that we should find peace in Christ alone. ‘Much peace have they that love thy law’ (Ps. 118, 165).

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Copyright © 1953 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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Translated from St Thomas's commentary on St John by T.