and pretended revelations, subsequent to and beside Christ ; it being the work of the Spirit to testify to the things of Christ, and not to anything new or beyond Him." 15. — [All things. ..Father. ..mine, etc.] Tlie object of this deep verse seems to be to show the entire unity between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the revelation of truth made to man. " The Holy Spirit shall show you things concerning Me, and yet things at the same time concerning the Father, because all things that the Father hath are mine."
Both this verse and the preceding one are strikingly calcu- lated to humble a Bible reader, and make him feel how little he knows, at his very best, of the full meaning of some Scriptures. There are things in them which we must feel we do not com- prehend. Beyond the great principle, that it is the special office of the Holy Spirit to glorify Christ, and to show disciples the whole truth concerning Christ, it is very hard to get.
May not the clause, " All things that the Father hath are mine," be specially put in to prevent our supposing that there can be any real separation between the things of Christ and the things of the Father ? It is like " I and my Father are One." " All mine are Thine, and Thine are mine." — '* Think not," our Lord seems to say, " when I speak of the Spirit showing you • my things,' that He will not show you the things of my Father. That would be impossible. There is so close an union between the Father and the Son, that the Spirit cannot show or teach the things of the one without the things of the other. In a word. He proceeds from the Father as well as from the Son."