Love And Showing

Dicit ei Iudas etc... Hic quarto loco exprimitur, meritum esse in mandatorum observatione. Quia enim dixerat, quod manifestare se debebat Apostolis et non mundo; coepit dubitare discipulus, propter quid diceret. Propter quod sequitur: Dicit ei Iudas, non ille Isacariotes: Domine, quid factum est, id est, quae causa est huius, quia te ipsum nobis manifestaturus es et non mundo? Et respondet ei Dominus, quod meritum est in causa, quia illi mandata non observant, in quibus est meritum videndi; propter quod dicit: Respondit Iesus et dixit ei: Si diligit me, semonem meum servabit; Lucae sexto: Quid vocatis me Domine, Domine, et non factitis quae praecipio vobis? Amor Dei non est otiosus; operatur enim magna, si est; si autem operari renuit, amor non est. Et ex hac observatione meretur Domini manifestationem; unde et Pater meus diliget eum; et ex hac dilectione sequitur manifestatio; ideo dicit: Et ad eum veniemus. Et si venit Dominus, nullum bonum deest; Sapinetiae septimo: Venerunt mihi omnia bona pariter cum illa. Et mansionem apud eum faciemus, et hoc merito observantiae mandatorum; unde Gregorius: Qui Deum vere diligit et mandata eius perfecte custodit, in eo mansionem Dominus facit; quia sic eum Divnitatis amor penetrat, ut ab hoc amore tentationis tempore non recedat. Et ideo, supple, manifestabor vobis, qui mandata mea servatis, eo quod me diligitis, et ideo meremini. Sanctus Bonaventura, Commentarius In Evangelium Ioannem, Caput XIV Source: Here, p989-90

Judas said to Him... 1 Here in fourth place is expressed the merit that there is in observation of the commandments. For because He said that He would show Himself to the Apostles and not to the world, 2 the disciple began to doubt, on account of which he spoke. Whence it follows: 'Judas, who was not Iscariot, said to Him, Lord, why is it... ' that is, what is the cause of it, 'that you will show yourself to us and not to the world?' And the Lord answers him that the reason is merit, because they do not observe the commandments in which is the merit of seeing, because of which it says: 'Jesus answered him and said: If someone loves me, he shall keep my word.' 3 In the sixth chapter of Luke: 'Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and you do not do what I command you?' 4 The love of God is not an idle thing, it does great things, if it truly is, but if there is a refusal to act, there is no love. It is from this observation that the manifestation of the Lord is merited, whence 'And my Father shall love him,' because manifestation is a consequence of this love. Therefore He says, 'And We shall come to him.' And if the Lord comes, no good is lacking. In the seventh chapter of Wisdom: 'To me all goods have come together with her.' 5 'And with him we shall make a dwelling place.' And this is the merit of observing the commandments, whence Gregory says: 'He who truly loves God and keeps His commandments flawlessly, in him the Lord shall make a dwelling place, because the love of the Divine penetrates him, so that because of this love he does not fall away in the time of trial.' 6 And therefore, to conclude: I shall be manifest to you who keep my commandments, by which you love me, and therefore you are worthy. Saint Bonaventura, Commentary On The Gospel Of Saint John, Chapter 14 1 Jn 14.22 2 Jn 14.19 3 Jn 14.23 4 Lk 6.46 5 Wisd 7.11 6 Greg Hom in Evang 2, Hom 30 Mig PL 76.1221