Is—glorified (éd0&dc3n). Lit., was glorified. The aorist points to the withdrawal of Judas. Jesus was glorified through death, and His fate was sealed (humanly speaking) by Judas’ going out. He speaks of the death and consequent glorification as already accomplished.
32. If God be glorified in Him. The most ancient au- thorities omit.
In Himself (év éavr@). His glory will be contained in and identified with the divine glory. Compare “the glory which I had with thee,” mapa coi (xvii. 5). “Ev i, indicates unity of being ; tapd with, unity of position.
33. Little children (rexvia). Diminuitive, occurring only here in the Gospel, but repeatedly in the First Epistle. No- where else in the New Testament.
Now (ap7v). In ver. 31, now is viv, which marks the point of time absolutely. “Apts marks the point of time as related to the past or to the future. Thus, “from the days of John the Baptist until now” (apts, Matt. xi. 12). “Thinkest thou that I cannot now (aptt) pray to my Father?” though succor has been delayed all along till now (Matt. xxvi. 53). Here the word implies that the sorrowful announcement of Jesus’ depart- ure from His disciples had been withheld until the present. The time was now come.
34. New (xaw7v). See on Matt. xxvi. 29.
Commandment (évroAnv). The word for a single com- mandment or injunction, but used also for the whole body of the moral precepts of Christianity. See 1 Tim. vi. 14; 2 Pet. ii. 21; iii. 2. See also on Jas. ii. 8. This new commandment embodies the essential principle of the whole law. Compare also 1 John iii. 23. Some interpreters, instead of taking that ye love one another, etc., as the definition of the commandment, explain the commandment as referring to the ordinance of the Holy Communion, and render, “a new commandment (to ob-