presence ; im you (€v), as an indwelling personal energy, at the springs of the life.
17. The Spirit of Truth. “A most exquisite title,” says Bengel. The Spirit, who has the truth, reveals it, by knowl- edge in the understanding; confers it by practical proof and taste in the will; testifies of it to others also through those to whom He has revealed it; and defends that truth, of which ch. i. 17 speaks, grace and truth. . . . The truth makes all our virtues true. Otherwise there is a kind of false knowledge, false faith, false hope, false love; but there is no such thing as false truth.”
The world. See oni. 9. Shall be in you. Some editors read, éor(v, ¢s in you. 18. Leave (agyow). See on iv. 3.
Comfortless (dpdavovs). Lit., bereft or orphans. Only here and Jas. i. 27, where it is rendered fatherless. Compare my little children (xiii. 33). ‘“ He hath not deft us without @ rude (xiii. 34); nor without an ewample (xiii. 15); nor without a motwe (xiv. 15); nor without a strength (xv. 5); nor without @ warn- ing (xv. 2,6); nor without a Comforter (xiv.18); nor without a reward (xiv. 2) (James Ford, ‘‘ The Gospel of St. John Ilus- trated ”’).
i will come (€pxopuar). Present tense, J come. See on ver. 3.
19. Ye shail live also («ai tues SyoeoIe). This may also be rendered, and ye shall live, explaining the former statement, ye behold me. So Rev., in margin. This is better. John is not arguing for the dependence of their life on Christ’s, but for fellowship with Christ as the ground of spiritual vision.
21. Hath. “Who has in memory and keeps in life” (Au- gustine).