Matthew Poole and continuators on John 16:12

12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now .

Not any new Articles of Doctrine or Faith; for Chap. 15.15. he had told them that he had made known unto them all things which he had heard of the Father, of that nature; but some things (probably) which concerned them, with reference to their Office as Apostles, the Constitution, State, and Government of the Church; but saith he, you cannot bear them now, in regard of their passion, or rather of their mo[illegible: 1 letter]e imperfect state.