And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
And if I go away, &c. If, i.e, when, I go away into heaven and there prepare a place for you and all your successors, that Isaiah , for all the elect, by giving them through the ages the Holy Ghost, and His grace by which He may prepare them for celestial glory; when, I say, this has been accomplished, then I will come again in the day of judgment, and receive you all to Myself, and crown you with a worthy reward in heaven.
And whither I go, ye know, &c.; i.e, Ye can, and ought easily know, because ye have often heard of Me that I am going to the Father in heaven, and that the road to heaven is My faith, doctrine, passion, and cross. The Apostles knew that Christ had said these things, but they did not yet understand them, which was the reason why they did not remember them. So S. Augustine, Maldonatus.
