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THE GREAT TEXTS OF THE BIBLE
THE GREAT TE OF THE BIBLE
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EDITED BY THE REV.
JAMES 'HASTINGS, D.D.
EDITOR OF "THE EXPOSITORY TIMES" "THE DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE*
"THE DICTIONARY OF CHRIST AND THE GOSPELS" AND
"THE ENCYCLOPiKDIA OF RELIGION AND ETHICS "
ST. JOHN
XIII. -XXI.
NEW YORK
CHARLES SGRIBNER'S SONS
EDINBURGH : T. & T. CLARK
1912
CONTENTS
TOPICS.
The Love of Jesus for His Own
Keqeneration and Eenewal .
The New Commandment
The Secret of the Untroubled Heart
The House op Many Mansions
The Reliability op the Redeemer
The Preparation and the Reception
The Way, the Truth, the Life
The Giving of the Comforter
Where He Delights to Dwell
Christ's Gift of Peace .
The True Vine ....
An Expedient Departure
The Spirit and the World
The Day of Knowledge and Power .
Life in the Knowledge op God
Environment and Character .
The Master's Consecration
The Kingdom op Truth
The Saviour's Easter Greeting
Christ's Mission and Ours
My Lord and My God .
Believing Without Seeing
The Chief Purpose op the Gospel .
Love and Service
The Individuality of Duty
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The Love of Jesus for His Own.
ST. JOHN (2) — I
Literature.
Beeching (H. C), The Bible Doctrine of the Sacraments, C8.
Benson (R. M.), The Final Passover, ii. (pt. i.), 1.
Bernard (T. D.), The Central Teaching of Jesus Christ, 31.
Black (H.), Christ's Service of Love, 192.
Blackwood (A.), Christian Service and Responsibility, 26,
Carter (T. T.), Meditations on the Public Life of our Lord, ii. 222.
Elmslie (W. G.), Memoir and Sermons, 267.
Jeffrey (J.), The Personal Ministry of the Son of Man, 253.
Jerdan (C), For the Lord's Table, 30.
Keble (J.), Sermons for the Christian Year : Sundays after Trinity, xiiir-
end, 451. McClelland (T. C), The Mind of Christ, 69. Maclaren (A.), Expositions : John ix.-xiv., 170. Morrison (G. H.), The Footsteps of the Flock, 241. Peabody (F. G.), Mornings in the College Chapel, 2nd Ser., 48. Raleigh (A.), The Way to the City, 23. Smellie (A.), In the Hour of Silence, 69. Smith (J.), Short Studies, 153.
Spurgeon (C. H.), Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, xiv., No, 810. Taylor (W. M.), Peter the Apostle, 110. Telford (J.), The Story of the Upper Room, 14. Watson (J.), The Upper Room, 60; Wilkinson (J. B.), Mission Sermons, 3rd Ser., 324. Christian World Pulpit, xlvi. 199 (Wright) ; Ivii. 349 (Wiseman) ; Ixiii.
344 (Lacey) ; Ixxiv. 397 (Goldsmith French) ; Ixxviii. 95 (Wicher). Churchman's Pulpit : Fifth Sunday in Lent : vi. 230 (Wilson) ; Holy
Week : vi. 480 (Codd) ; Ascension Day : viii. 439 (Lacey). Examiner (1906), 348 (Jowett). Preacher's Magazine, vii. 197 (Clifford).
The Love of Jesus for His own.
Having loved his ovra which virere in the world, he loved them unto the end. — John xiii. i.
1. Those who study St. John's Gospel critically find it divided into sections. As many as seven divisions are made out by some. In a simpler way the Gospel divides itself into two. The first division, containing twelve chapters, relates how Jesus wrought the works of Him that sent Him while it was day. The second, beginning with this thirteenth chapter, describes His departure. The keynote of the first section of the second part is this, that " having loved his own, he loved them unto the end."
^ The latter half of St. Jolm's Gospel, which begins with these words, is the Holy of Holies of the New Testament. Nowhere else do the blended lights of our Lord's superhuman dignity and human tenderness shine with such lambent brightness. Nowhere else is His speech at once so simple and so deep. Nowhere else have we the heart of God so unveiled to us. On no other page, even of the Bible, have so many eyes, glistening with tears, looked and had the tears dried. The immortal words which Christ spoke in that upper chamber are His highest self-revelation in speech, even as the Cross to which they led up is His most perfect self- revelation in act.^
2. The explanation of all that follows is in these words: " Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end." It is the key to His action of washing their feet^ to give them a proof of His enduring love. It is the explanation of all His previous life, and of the death He is to accomplish soon. St. John gives us in these words the right point of view for understanding the true significance of all that follows and of all that went before. He was possessed and governed by love, the Apostle declares. If we do not see this, we see nothing and