Rivers. A type of abundance. Compare Num. xx. 11. Living water. Compare iv. 10.
39. The Spirit. The Holy Spirit, personally.
The Holy Ghost (vedpa ayov). The best texts omit dysor, holy, and the definite article is not in the text, so that the strict rendering is simply spurzt. Lit., spirit was not yet. Given, in A. V. and Rev., is added to guard against a possible misconcep- tion, which, as Alford observes, “no intelligent reader could fall into.” The word spirit, standing thus alone, marks, not the personal Spirit, but His operation or gift or manifesta- tion. Canon Westcott aptly says: “It is impossible not to contrast the mysteriousness of this utterance with the clear teaching of St. John himself on the ‘unction’ of believers (1 John ii. 20 sqq.), which forms a commentary, gained by later experience, upon the words of the Lord.”
Was glorified (é50&4c09n). We have here one of John’s characteristic terms, even as the idea is central to his Gospel— to show forth Jesus as the manifested glory of God (i. 14). The beginning of our Lord’s miracles was a manifestation of His glory (ii. 11). His glory was the expression of the Father’s will (viii. 54). By His work He glorified the Father upon earth (xii. 28; xvii. 4), and in this was Himself glorified (xvii. 10). The sickness and resurrection of Lazarus were for the glory of God (xi. 4). The consummation of His work was marked by the words, “ Now was the Son of man glorified, and God was glorified in Him” (xiii. 31). His glory He had with the Father before the world was (xvii. 5). It is consum- mated at His ascension (vii. 89; xii. 16). The passion is the way to glory (xii. 23, 24; xiii.31). The fruitfulness of be- lievers in Him is for the glory of God (xv. 8), and the office of the Spirit is to glorify Christ (xvi. 14).
40. Many. The best texts omit. Read as Rev., some.
This saying (Tov Adyov). The best texts substitute rar Aoywv TovTar, these words. So Rev.