"In this we have known that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit." And he who has this Spirit and the Son is assured that he has the Father. Whence Augustine says that "the Father gave his Son as the price of redemption, the Holy Spirit as the pledge of adoption, and himself as the inheritance to the adopted."
QUESTIONS.
46. Question I. But there is a question about what he says: that where I am, they also may be with me.
To the contrary: Above in the fourteenth chapter: In my Father's house there are many mansions.
I respond: "In unequal glory, equal joy"; by reason of unequal glory there is multiplicity: by reason of common joy, where head and members are.
47. Question II. Likewise, he dwells in inaccessible light, First Timothy last chapter
I respond that inaccessible means either because in no way, or because with difficulty, or because not by human power, or because it is approached only through divine glory.
48. Question III. Furthermore, excellences destroy; but the brightness of God is most excellent.
I respond: This is to be understood as follows: where the one apprehending is corporeal, the thing apprehended can cause harm.
49. Question IV. Furthermore, it is asked concerning what he says, that the world, that is, the worldly, did not know him.
On the contrary: Romans 1: Who, although they had known God, did not glorify him as God, etc.
I respond: There is simple knowledge and knowledge of approbation ; by simple knowledge they knew him, but not by knowledge of approbation ; and therefore by knowing they merited nothing.