鉴于祂的离去，唯有主是信心的对象
主现在（约翰福音 14 章）开始与他们谈论祂即将离去的事。祂要去的地方，他们不能去。在人的眼中，他们似乎要被独自留在地上。主正是针对这种看似孤寂的状态，向他们表明祂是他们信心的对象，就像神是他们信心的对象一样。藉此，祂向他们揭示了关于他们处境的全部真理。祂的工作并不是所讨论的主题，而是他们因那工作而得的地位。祂的位格 (祂的自己, His Person) 应是他们明白那地位的关键，现在也仍然是：将要来的圣灵保惠师，将是他们享受那地位的能力，甚至更多。 ...
Category: John
John 14 – Synopsis
The Lord now begins to discourse with them in view of His departure. He was going where they could not come. To human sight they would be left alone upon the earth. It is to the sense of this apparently desolate condition that the Lord addresses Himself, shewing them that He was an object for faith, even as God was. In doing this, He opens to them the whole truth with respect to their condition. His work is not the subject treated of, but their position by virtue of that work. His Person should have been for them the key to that position, and would be so now: the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, who should come, would be the power by which they should enjoy it, and indeed more yet. ...