as indicative, ye abide. The indicative is preferable, as answer- ing to wéver abcdeth.
In Him. Christ.
28. When He shall appear (étav davepwI7). The best texts read éay if, for when. So Rev., which gives also the proper passive force of gdavepwIH, if He shall be manifested. Not expressing a doubt of the fact, but uncertainty as to the circumstances. On dgavepdw to make manifest, see on John xxi. i. John never uses avoxadi’rtw to reveal, of the revela- tion of Christ. Indeed, neither the verb nor the kindred noun, drroxdduwis, occurs in his writings except in John xii. 38, which is a citation from Isaiah, and in Apoc. i. 1.
We may have. Thus identifying himself with his children in the faith. Teacher and pupil must alike abide in Him.
We may have confidence (cx@pev mappnciav). Rev., boldness. For the phrase have boldness, see iii. 21; iv. 17; v. 14; Heb. iii. 6; x. 19; Philem. 8. For the word rappnoia boldness, see on John vii. 18; Acts ii. 29. It is opposed, as here, to aicytvouar to be ashamed, in Prov. xiii. 5, where the Septuagint reads “a wicked man és ashamed (aicxvveras) and shall not have boldness (mappnoiav). Also in Philip. i. 20. Compare 2 Cor. iii. 12. The idea of free, open speech lies at the bottom of the word: coming before God’s bar with noth- ing to conceal. The thought is embodied in the general confes- sion of the Book of Common Prayer: ‘That we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our Heavenly Father, but confess them.” So John Wesley’s Hymn:
‘¢ Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress:
"Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed, With joy shall I lift up my head.
Bold shall I stand in Thy great day,
For who aught to my charge shall lay ? Fully absolved through these I am,— From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.”