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Joh_16:25. Ταῦτα ] that, namely, after which the disciples, in Joh_16:17-18, had asked, and what He Himself, Joh_16:20 ff., had more fully carried out; that, consequently, which had been spoken of His departure and of His being seen again, and its circumstances and consequences. He has uttered this in improper, allegorical expressions ( ἐν παροιμ ., comp. on Joh_10:6, and on the generic plur., Mar_12:1), proportioned to their capacity of comprehension; but when the hour of the fulfilment of the promise of the Paraclete shall have arrived, He will then, and that by means of the Paraclete, no longer speak to them under such sensuous veils of thought, but without circumlocution, and directly, frankly and freely ( παῤῥησίᾳ , adverbial instrumental dative, as in Joh_11:14), give them tidings of the Father. In answer to Luthardt, who refers ταῦτα to all that was previously said, including the discourse on the vine (comp. also Godet), Joh_16:1 is already decisive, and also the fact that before Joh_16:19 the disciples have spoken.