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τὸν πατέρα, ei μὴ δι ἐμοῦ.
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7. εἰ ἐγνώκειτέ µε, καὶ τὸν πατέρα µου
‘ 32 ees ἐγνώκειτε ἄν: καὶ ἔ dm ἄρτι γινώσκετε αὐτὸν, καὶ ἑωράκατε αὐτόν. g xiii. το
δ. Λέγει αὐτῷ Φίλιππος, “ Κύριε, δεῖξον ἡμῖν τὸν πατέρα,
ἡμιν.” καὶ οὐκ ἔγνωκάς µε Φίλιππε ;
ϱ. Λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς, “ Τοσοῦτον χρόνον μεθ ὑμῶν εἰμι,
as nih τες, Kal" ἀρκεί h Prov. Xxx. 16.
6 ἑωρακὼς ἐμὲ, ἑώρακε τὸν πατέρο - ‘ ~ 9 , -* ς a a s
καὶ πῶς σὺ λέγεις, Δεῖξον ἡμῖν τὸν πατέρα ;
ἐγὼ ἐν τῷ πατρὶ, καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ἐν ἐμοί ἐστι ;
10. οὐ πιστεύεις ὅτι τὰ ῥήματα ἃ ἐγὼ
λαλῶ ὑμῖν, ' ἀπ᾿ ἐμαυτοῦ οὐ λαλῶ: 6 δὲ πατὴρ 6? ἐν ἐμοὶ } µένων, iv. το refi.
αὐτὸς ποιεῖ τὰ ἔργα.
΄ , 9 > 8 > ρ A A 11. πιστεύετε μοι οτι εγω εν τῷ πατρι, καιο ‘ > 3 ms 3 δὲ 5 AY , 3 BG , , πατηρ εν εμ.οἳ ει οε μὴ, la τα εργα αυτα πιστευετε μοι.
«4 Vi. 56, etc.
12.
᾽αμὴν dui λέγω ὑμῖν, 6 πιστεύων eis ἐμὲ, τὰ ἔργα ἃ ἐγὼ ποῖω,
> ο) , ν΄ ς , , , o 31 5 A % KOKELVOS ποιησει, και μείζονα τουτων ποιησει * οτι εγω προς τον
k Mt. xxi. 21.
1 Instead of εγνωκειτε αν W.H. read αν ηδειτε with BCL 33.
are one with Jesus cannot die. They are possessed of the source of life. Further see Hort’s The Way, etc., and Bernard’s Central Teaching. — οὐδεὶς ἔρχεται, ‘no one comes. to the Father save through me” as the way, the truth, the life. It is not ‘‘ through believing certain propositions regarding me” nor “' through some special kind of faith,” but ‘‘ through me ”’.—Ver. 7. He is the essential knowledge, et ἐγνώκειτέ pe . . . Some press the distinction between ἐγνώκειτε and ᾖἤδειτε, “the first representing a knowledge acquired and progressive; the second a know- ledge perceptive andimmediate”’. But this discrimination is here inappropriate. The clause explains the foregoing. The Father is in Jesus, and to know Him is to know the Father. They had un- consciously been coming to the Father and living in Him. Now they were to do so consciously: ἀπ᾿ ἄρτι γινώσκέτε ... αὐτόν. The repeated αὐτόν brings out the point, that it was the Father that was henceforth to be recognised by them when they saw and thought of Jesus: **ye know Him and have seen Him”’. Vv. 8-14. A third interruption by Philip ; to.which Fesus replies, append- ing to His answer a promise which springs out of what He had said to Philip.—Ver.8. Λέγει . . . ἡμῖν. Philip, seizing upon the ἑωράκατε αὐτόν of νετ. 7, utters the universal human craving to see God, to have the same indubitable direct knowledge of Him as we have of one another. Perhaps Philip supposed some appearance visible to the eye would be granted. Always there persists the feeling that more might be done to
make God known than has been done.— Ver. ο. Jesus corrects the error, and guides the craving to its true satisfaction. Τοσοῦτον χρόνον . . . πατέρα [τοσοῦτον χρόνον may be a gloss for the dative which is found in ΣΡΙ]. The mani- festation which Philip craves had been made, and made continuously for some considerable time; for so long that it was matter of surprise and regret to Jesus that Philip needed still to be taught that he who saw Jesus saw the Father. It is implied that not to see the Father in Jesus was not to know Him. —Ver. 10. ov πιστεύεις . . . ἐστι: This unbelief was involved in Philip’s question, but when the question of the mutual indwelling of the Father and Jesus was thus directly put to him, he would keve no doubt as to the answer. of. x. 38. The fact of the union is in- disputable; the mode is inexplicable; some of the results are indicated in the words: τὰ ῥήματα . . . τὰ ἔργα. See vil. 16-18 and v. 19. The mutual in- dwelling is such that everything Jesus says or does is the Father’s saying or doing. This was so obvious that Jesus could appeal to the works He did in case His assertion was disbelieved.—Ver. 11. πιστεύετέ µοι . . . πιστεύετε. ‘ Believe me,” ᾖ.6., my assertion, not my mani- festation, ‘‘or if you find that difficult, believe on account of the works them- selves”. The mention of His works and the evidence they afford that He is in the Father suggests to Him a ground of comfort for His disciples in view of His departure. And from this point onwards in this chapter it is to the comforting of the disciples our Lord addresses Him-