Matthew Poole and continuators on John 16:25

25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father w.

That by Proverbs is meant any dark sayings, is plain from the opposition in the text, of that term, plainly. Christ had spoken, tho not all things, yet many things to them in dark phrases, and under many figurative expressions; but (saith he) the time cometh, when I shall shew you plainly of the Father; that time is either Christs second coming, or after the pouring out of the Spirit, which latter is most probable what our Saviour doth here intend, because of those great measures of knowledg, which at, and after that time were given out. He had before given to his Disciples to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, far beyond others, Matth. 13 11. but yet it appears by Chap. 14. and many other texts, that they had a very confused. and imperfect knowledg of the Trinity, and Christs oneness with the Father, and their mutual Personal relation one to another.

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