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Joh 14:6. Ἡ ὁδός, καὶ ἡ ἀληθεία, καὶ ἡ ζωή, the way, and the truth, and the life) He is called in the Soliloquies of Augustine, ch. iv., the true way of life [vera via vitæ]. But the text has greater force, comprising the sum of the doctrine concerning Jesus Christ. For to the question concerning the Way, He answers this, I am the Way: to the question concerning Knowledge [Joh 14:5, How can we know?], He answers this, I am the Truth: to the question, Whither? He makes that answer, I am the Life. [To the metaphoric declaration, I am the Way, there is subjoined, for the sake of explanation, a more literal (plain, not figurative) declaration, I am both the Truth and the Life. He who moves onward by this way, he, and he alone, truly avails himself of the right path; and he who stedfastly holds to this way, he has life for ever.-V. g.] At the same time, also, three propositions are stated (comp. similarly the three [things, of which the Spirit reproves the world, sin, righteousness, and judgment], ch. Joh 16:8), of which the first, that concerning the way, is handled presently after in this verse, “No man cometh to the Father, but by Me;” concerning the truth, at Joh 14:7, etc., 17, “The Spirit of Truth:-ye know Him;” concerning the life, Joh 14:18-19, etc., “Because I live, ye shall live also;”-πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα, to the Father) This again answers the question as to knowing [Joh 14:5]. The one and only way, the sure way.-διʼ ἐμοῦ, by Me) This again answers the question as to the way.