The Greek word wMcli we render " contain," is the same that is rendered in Matt. xix. 11 " receive," and in the same sense that it appears used here : " All men cannot receive this saying."
The change from the plural " we know," in verse 24, to the singular " I suppose," in this verse, is undoubtedly peculiar. But there are parallel cases quoted by Doddridge. (Rom vii 14, and 1 Thess, ii. 18.) Euthymius notes it, and thinks the insertion of " I suppose " was meant to soften down the hyper- bole.
It is noteworthy that the word " Amen " is the concluding word of each of the four Gospels. It is equivalent to saying, " In truth, verily, it is so." It is equally noteworthy that our Lord is the only person who ever uses the word at the begin- ning of a sentence.
I have now completed my Notes on St. John's Gos- pel. I have given my last exj^lanation. I have gather- ed my last collection of the opinions of Commentators. I have offered for the last time my judgment upon doubtful and disputed points. I lay down my pen with humbled, thankful, and solemnized feelings. The clos- ing words of holy BuUinger's Commentary on the Gospels, condensed and abridged, will perhaps not be considered an inappropriate conclusion to my " Expos- itory Thoughts on St. John."
" Reader, I have now set before thee thy Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ, that very Son of God, who was be- gotten by the Father by an eternal and ineffable gener- ation, consubstantial and coequal with the Father in all things ; — but in these last times, according to prophet- ical oracles, was incarnate for us, suffered, died, rose again from the dead, and was made King and Lord of all things. — This is He who is appointed and given to us by God the Father, as the fulness of all grace and truth, as the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world, as the ladder and door of heaven, as the ser- pent lifted up to render the poison of sin harmless, as