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[Because 1 live, ye shall live also.'] Tins great deep saying of Christ seems to admit of a very wide aud full signification " Your spiritual life now, and your eternal life hereafter, are both secured by my life. The life of the Head guarantees the life of the members. I live, have life in myself, can never die, can never have my life destroyed by my enemies, and live on to all eternity. Therefore ye shall live also. Your life is secured for you, and can never be destroyed. You have ever- lasting life now, and shall have everlasting glory hereafter."
That word " I live," is a great full saying, and we cannot fathom it all. It does not merely mean " I shall rise from the dead." It is certainly far more than the future tense. It im- plies that Christ is " the Living One," the source and fountain of life. It is like " In Him was life," — and " as the Father hath life in Himself, even so hath He given to the'Son to have life in Himself." (John i. 4 ; v. 26.)
20. — [On that day ye shall know, etc.] Here, again, I believe, with Cyril aud Au3:ustine, that our Lord specially refers to the day of His own second advent. Then, and not till then, His disciples will have perfect knowledge. Now they see and know in part, and through a glass darkly. Then they shall fully understand the mystical union between the Father and Son, and between the Son and all His believing members.
To confine the " day," as Chrysostom does, to the resurrection of Christ from the dead, seems to me to fall short of its full meaning.