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b Witk gen.of ,
/ , A εν 4 4 δόξασόν σου τὸν υἱὸν, ἵνα καὶ
XVII. 1. ΤΑΥΤΑ ἐλάλησεν 6 ᾿Ιησοῦς, καὶ " ἐπῆρε] τοὺς ὀφθαλ- μοὺς αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν, καὶ εἶπε, “΄ Πάτερ, ἐλήλυθεν ἡ dpa:
2 6 υἱός σου δοξάσῃ σε: 2. καθὼς
A , a A obj. here ἔδωκας αὐτῷ ' ἐξουσίαν πάσης σαρκὸς, ἵνα °mav ὃ δέδωκας αὐτῷ,
and Mt.
x. 1, Mk. vi. 7; usually with infin. or ἐπί with gen. or acc.
1 T.R. in AC* and most versions, except vulg.
in SBC*DL 33. 2 Omit και with SABC*D.
ἐσκορπίσθησαν ἕκαστος cis τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ. In x. 12 the wolf σκορπίζει τὰ πρόβατα. Cf. especially Mk. xt. 27. εἰς τὰ ἴδια frequently of one’s own house, cf. xix. 27; Acts xxi. 6; Esth. ν. το, vi. 12. Here perhaps it is somewhat less definite, ‘to his own ” is better than ‘‘ to his own house”. It includes ‘‘to his own interests,” or “pursuits,” or ‘‘ familiar surroundings,” or ‘“‘ private affairs,” or all these together. Those whom He had gathered round Him and who believed in Him were yet destined to fail Him in the critical hour, and were to scatter each to his own, for the time abandoning the cause and Person who had held them together, leaving their loved Master (ver. 27) alone.—kai οὐκ εἰμὶ μόνος... ἐστι, ΄΄ and (yet) I am not alone, because the Father is with me’’. This presence supplies the lack of all other company. He was destined to lose for a time the consciousness even of this presence, Mt. xxvii. 46.—Ver. 33. ταῦτα . . . κόσμον. ταῦτα embraces the whole of the con- solatory utterances from xiv. I onwards. His aim.in uttering them was ‘‘ that in me” (cf. Paul’s use of ‘in Christ”) “γε may have peace”. ἐν ἐμοί and ἐν τῷ xéop are the two spheres in which at one and the same time the disciples live, xvii. 15, Col. ΠΠ. rand5. Solongas they ‘“‘ abode in Christ” and His words abode in them, xv. 7, they would have peace, xiv. 27. So long as they were in the world they would have tribulation, θλίψιν ἔχετε, “in the world ye have tribulation .---ἀλλὰ θαρσεῖτε, “ but be of good courage”. Cf. θάρσει τέκνον, Mt. ix. 2, xiv. 27.--ἐγὼ vevikeynka τὸν κόσμον. viKay occurs only here in the Gospel, but twenty-two times in the Johannine Epistles and Apocalypse ; only four times in the other N.T. writ- ings; cf. especially 1 John v. 4,5. “I (emphatic) have overcome the world,” have proved that its most dangerous assaults can be successfully resisted ; and in me you are sharers in my victory; in me you also overcome.
ς Vi. 39.
επαρας, without και before ειπε,
Liicke says this is ‘‘ offenbar eine stylistische correctur”’,
CHAPTER XVII.—Vv. 1-26. The clos- ing prayer of Fesus [' precatio summi sacerdotis,” Chytraeus]. Vv. 1-5, with re- ference to Himself ; vv. 6-19, for His disciples ; vv. 20-26, for all who should afterwards believe on Him.—Ver. 1. Tatra ἐλάλησεν .. . καὶ ἐπῆρε. The connection of ἐλάλησεν with ἐπῆρε by καί shows that the prayer followed im- mediately upon the discourse, and was, therefore, uttered in the hearing of the disciples. ἐπῆρε . . . οὐρανόν, so 1 Chron. xxi. 16. ρα τ. ὀφθ., Ps. cxxi. 1, and cxxiii 1, From οὐρανόν it cannot be argued that they were in the open air. “Fiir das Auge des Geistes is der freie Himmel iiberall.” Liicke. ‘The eye of one who prays is on all occasions raised toward heaven.” Meyer. Πάτερ, ἐλήλυ- θεν ἡ Spa, “' Father,” the simplest and most intimate form of address, cf. xi. 41, xii. 27. ‘The hour is come,” i.¢., the hour appointed for the glorification of the Son ; ¢f. ii. 4, xii. 23. That this hour is meant is shown by the petition which follows : δόξασόν σου τὸν vidv, “' glorify Thy Son”. gov, in position of emphasis. This glorification embraced His death,- resurrection, and session at God’s right hand, as accredited Mediator, cf. vii. 30, xii. 16, 23. But this glorification itself had an object, ἵνα 6 vids δοξάσῃ σε, “ that the Son may glorify Thee”. The Father is glorified by being known in His love and holiness.—Ver. 2. This is the object of Christ’s manifestation and reign. This glorification of the Son, which is now imminent, is in accordance with the purpose of the Father in giving the Son power over men: καθὼς ἔδωκας αὐτῷ ἐξουσίαν . . . αἰώνιον. - Only by His being glorified could the Son give this eternal life, and so fulfil the com- mission with which He was entrusted, ἐξουσίαν ἔδωκας is explained in ver. 27. and the verses preceding: Mt. xi. 27: Heb. i. 2. πάσης σαρκὸς represents