and more than two hundred and thirty feet higher than Gerizim.*
Ought to worship (8¢7). Better, mwst worship. She puts it as a divine obligation. It is the only true holy place. Com- pare ver. 24.
21. The hour cometh (épyetas dpa). Rather an hour. There is no article. Js coming ; is even now on its way.
Shall ye worship (apockuyycere). See on Acts x. 25. The word was used indefinitely in ver. 20. Here with the Father, thus defining true worship.
The Father. ‘This absolute use of the title the Father is characteristic of John. He speaks of God as the Father, and my Father, more commonly the former. On the distinction between the two Canon Westcott observes: ‘Generally it may be said that the former title expresses the original relation of God to being, and specially to humanity, in virtue of man’s creation in the divine image; and the latter more particularly the relation of the Father to the Son incarnate, and so indirectly to man in virtue of the Incarnation. The former suggests those thoughts which spring from the consideration of the absolute moral connection of man with God; the latter those which spring from what is made known to us, through revelation, of the connection of the Incarnate Son with God and with man.” See vi. 45; x. 30: xx. 215 viii. 18,19; xiv. 6-10; xv. 8. John never uses our Father; only once your Hather (xx. 17), and never Father without the article, except in address.
22. Ye know not what (6 ov oldate). Lit., what ye know not. Rev., rightly, that which ye know not. Compare Acts xvii. 23, where the correct reading is 6, what, instead of 6», whom: “what therefore ye worship in ignorance.” This wor-
* Condensed from Dr, Thomson’s ‘‘ Central Palestine and Phoenicia,” in ‘<The Land and the Book.” An interesting description of the excavations made on the summit of Gerizim, by Lieutenant Anderson, will be found in the same volume, pp. 126-128.