forth, and with the same symbol as that employed by Christ here, the crude pagan conception of life rising out of death.
Alone (aités povos). Lit., ttself alone. Rev., by ttself alone, 25. Life (uynv). See on Mark xii. 30; Luke i. 46.
Shall lose (azodécer). The best texts read azrodnvet, loseth. See on Luke ix. 25.
In this world. This earthly economy, regarded as alien and hostile to God. The words are added in order to explain the strong phrase, hateth his life or soul.
Shall keep (fudd£er). See on 1 Pet. i. 4.
26. Serve (Suaxovf). See on Matt. xx. 26; Mark ix. 35; 1 Pet. i. 12.
Me (€uol). Notice the emphatic recurrence of the pronoun in this verse.
My Father. Rev., rightly, the Father. “Very much of the exact force of St. John’s record of the Lord’s words ap- pears to depend upon the different conceptions of the two forms under which the fatherhood of God is described. God is spoken of as ‘the Father’ and as ‘my Father” Generally it may be said that the former title expresses the original rela- tion of God to being, and specially to humanity, in virtue of man’s creation in the divine image; and the latter more par- ticularly 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. ‘The Father’ corresponds, under this aspect, with the group of ideas gathered up in the Lord’s titles, ‘the Son,’ ‘the Son of man;’ and ‘my Father’ with those which