If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
7. If you had known me. He confirms what we have just now said, that it is a foolish and pernicious curiosity, when men, not satisfied with him, attempt to go to God by indirect and crooked paths. “Par voyes obliques et tortues.” They admit that there is nothing better than the knowledge of God; but when he is near them, and speaks to them...
You know the way better than you think. Christ is willing to make the best of your weak knowledge, seeing good in you that you cannot yet see in yourselves. Thomas shows modesty in his ignorance, and Christ's word stirs him to seek further light rather than settle for confusion.
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Commenting on John 14:4-11
If ye had known me,.... Christ having made mention of his Father's house, and of himself, as the way thither, and the way of access to the Father, was willing to inform his disciples better concerning him before his departure from them, which he introduces, saying: "if ye had known me"; that is, more fully and perfectly; for that they knew Christ to be the...