nor the love of Christ for the disciple, but the Christ-principle of love which includes both. See the same form of expression in the joy that is mine, ver. 11; iii. 29; xvii. 185 the yudgment (v. 30; viii. 16); the commandments (xiv. 15); peace (xiv. 27).
11. My joy. The joy that is mine; characteristic of me. See on ver. 9.
Might remain (ueivy). The best texts read 7, may be.
Might be full (aAnpwd7). Rev., more correctly, may be fudfilled. The A. V. loses the distinction between the absolute joy which is Christ’s, and the progressive, but finally consum- mated joy which is the disciple’s.
12. My commandment (7 évtod 7) éum). The command- ment which is mine.
That ye love (#a). Indicating not merely the nature of the commandment, but its purport.
13. Greater love hath no man than this, that (iva). Some of the more subtile phases of John’s thought cannot be appre- hended without a careful study of this often-recurring conjunc- tion. It is still claimed by some grammarians that it is used to mark, not only design and end, but also reswlt.* But it may fairly be claimed that its predominant sense is intent, purpose, purport, or object. Hence that, as representing iva, is to be taken in the sense of #o the end or intent that, im order that. Here the use of the word is very subtile and suggestive, as well as beautiful. No man hath greater love than his (love), which, in its original conception, was intended and designed to reach to the extent of sacrificing life for a friend. Christ, there- fore, here gives us more than a mere abstract comparison, and more than a merely human gauge of love. He measures love according to its divine, original, far-reaching intent.
* The technical terms are TeAiK@s (telicds), of the design and end, and éxBa- rixas (ekbatikés), of the result.