my charge. He cannot condemn Me. I shall come forth from the trial more than conqueror."
Let us mark the difference between Christ and all others who have been born of woman. He is the only one in whom Satan has found " nothing." He came to Adam and Eve, and found weakness. He came to Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and all the saints, and found imperfection. He came to Christ, and found " nothing " at all. He was a Lamb " without blemish and without spot," a suitable Sacrifice for a world of sinners, a suitable Head for a redeemel race.
Let us thank God that we have such a perfect, sin- less Saviour ; that His righteousness is a perfect right- eousness, and His life a blameless life. In ourselves and our doings we shall find everything imperfect ; and if we had no other hope than our own goodness, we might well despair. But in Christ we have a perfect, sinless. Representative and Substitute. Well may we say, with the triumphant Apostle, " Who shall lay any- thing to our charge?" (Rom. viii. 33.) Christ hath died for us, and suffered in our stead. In Him Satan can find nothing. We are hidden in Him. The Father sees us in Him, unworthy as we are, and for His sake is well pleased.
Notes. John xiv. 27—31.
27. — [Peace 1 leave with you.] In this verse our Lord gives His disciples one more consolation. He bequeatlis them as a legacy, " peace : " not riches or worldly honor, but peace, — peace of heart, conscience, and inward man, — peace from a sense of par- doned sin, a living Saviour, and a home in heaven.
Matthew Henry remarks here, " When Christ left the world, He made His will. His soul He bequeathed to His Father, and His body to Joseph. His clothes fell to the soldiers. His mother He left to the care of John. But what should He leave to His poor disciples, who had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none ; but He left them what was far better, His peace."