Judas] called Thaddæus or Lebbæus (Matthew 10:3), is not the same as Jude the Lord's brother. He thought that Jesus was about to establish an earthly kingdom, and therefore to manifest Himself to the world. 23. Jesus, by adding that the Father also will come to believers, shows more clearly that it is a spiritual manifestation of which He is speaking, and that only to those who love Jesus, can the manifestation be made. We will come] Where the Son is, there of necessity is the Father also, as well as the Spirit, for the Three are One, being different forms of the subsistence and manifestation of the same Divine Being. This passage illustrates the doctrine that the Persons of the Holy Trinity are inseparable, and contain one another. The technical word is perichorçsis (Gk.), or 'circumincessio' (circuminsessid), Lat. See on John 10:38.

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