Twelve chambers for his daughters, also near Each other ; and, with polished marble walls, The sleeping-rooms of Priam’s sons-in-law And their unblemished consorts.”’ ‘«Tliad,” vi., 242-250.
Godet remarks: “The image is derived from those vast oriental palaces, in which there is an abode not only for the sovereign and the heir to the throne, but also for all the sons of the king, however numerous they may be.”
If it were not so, | would have told you (ed 8é yu elzrov av ipiv). Wyce., If anything less, I had said to you.
| go to prepare, etc. Many earlier interpreters refer Z would have told you to these words, and render J would have told you that I go to prepare a place for you. But this is in- admissible, because Jesus says (ver. 3) that He is actually go- ing to preparea place. The better rendering regards ¢f 24 were not so, I would have told you, as parenthetical, and connects the following sentence with are many mansions, by means of 6t1, for or because, which the best texts insert. ‘In my Father’s house are many mansions (if it were not so, I would have told you), for I go to prepare a place for you.”
| go to prepare. Compare Num. x. 33. Also Heb. vi. 20, “whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus.”
A place (ré7rov). See on xi. 48. The heavenly dwelling is thus described by three words: house, abode, place.
3. If | go (éav mropev9d). Topedouas, go, of going with a definite object. See on viii. 21.
1 will come again (du epyouar). The present tense; / come, so Rev. Not to be limited to the Lord’s second and glorious coming at the last day, nor to any special coming, such as Pentecost, though these are all included in the expression ; rather to be taken of His continual coming and presence by the Holy Spirit. ‘Christ is, in fact, from the moment of His