Matthew Poole and continuators on John 14:4

4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know .

Christ, ver. 33. of the former Chapter, had dignified his Disciples with the familiar loving title of Little Children. It is pleasant to consider how he continueth his discourse to them in such a Dialect as a mother would speak to a little child crying after her, seeing her preparing her self to go abroad: The chi[illegible: 1 letter]d cries; the mother bids it be still, she is but going to such a friend's house; it still cries, [illegible: 1 letter]he [illegible: 2 letters]lls it, she is but going to prepare a place for it the[illegible: 1 letter]e [illegible: 1 letter]h[illegible: 1 letter]re it shall be much happier than it is at home: it is not [illegible: 1 word] satisfied; she tells it again, that tho she goes, she will come again, and then it shall go along with her, and she will part no more from it: the child is yet impatient; she again endeavoureth to still it, telling it, that it knoweth whither she goeth, and it knows the way, by which, if need be, it may come to her.