The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 1 — Section 348

Bee notos, oJ1. xxi. 15 nncl iii. 35) 1 the Bon, he exhausterl. New comhinations, new tmns- and ho lovoth him to such 11n extent thBt formo.tions, new discoveries, new insight into he 1howeth him, mnking it therefore possible the eternal love, will be effected hy him whom for him "to see"-e.11 things that himself God bath sent, whom the Father hatb sancti- doeth. The Son hns been from ct.ernitv ancl fied nnd eent into the world (but see vcr. 28). is now, notwithstnnding hie inoe.mnte lowli- Vers. 21-26.-Greater works: (i.) the noss, the contiuuons Speototor of all the ruurrecticm of the dead. J!'nther'e doing in oil heorta and lives, in Ver. 21.-For (-yilp introclnces an illus- nil plnoes of his dominion. "0 righteous tration, a proof of the previous assertion. Fnthor, the world bath not known thee: but viz. that the eternal love of the Son would I have known thee." So stupe11doua o olnim issue in such new marvels) as the Father wns never exoeede,1 or tmnscended. "All raiseth the dea.d, and qu.ickeneth them; even things that himself doeth," shown nnd visible so the Son qu.ickeneth whom he will. This to One walking this world. The mind eitlier is the most exhaustive expression of the 1·ebele ngninst or succumbs before such Father's love and revelation to the Son. sublime nnd all-embrncing knowledge. No This thing the Sou sees, and this same neutrality is possible. If these were his thing he will do, whether these Jews words, then there is justificntion for the attempt to put any arrest upon his will or generalizations of the prologue. not. The majority of commentators regard Verd. 20b-29.-(/3) The greater worka. vers. 21-27 BB descriptive of the moral and Ver. 20b.-And greater works than these spiritual resunection of dead souls, and works of henling will he show him. Here hold that a transition is made in vers. 28, tbe term lp-ya. is used for the first time 29 to the resnrrection of dead bodies and in this Gospel. It becomes the recognized the final consummation. There are some, phrase by which Christ describes what the however, who regard the whole psssa.ge- world regards ns " signs and wonders," even vers. 28, 2!:l-as referring, with the " miracles" of power or grace; but it previous verses, to moral resurrection, al- notually connotes the simple activity of though the words, "in their tombs" ( ;., Goel, the normal operation of his hand. /J-111)/J.E<ou), are there added to give distinct- Greater manifestations than physical quick- ness and explicitness to tho.t future resur- ening or revival, namely, the mighty changes rection ; and though "now is " of ver. 25 , of thought and life, the gifts of grace and is not there predicated or repeated. Others peace, eternal life itself, are evermore pro- (with ma.ny of the older expositors) refer ceeding. The Father will so show them the entire passage to the final resurrection, that the Son will see and do them, and so which, however, is incompatible with ver. bring them by revelation to your conscions- 20 and with the " now is" of ver. 25. ness the.t ye may marvel. Christ will not Others, again, see in ver. 21, in i-y<ipu and say here thnt ye m1ty believe, but that ye (wo11"01Ej', the whole process of resurrection may look on confounded and astonished. and renewal, both physical and moral, This was the firAt effect of Christ's work- bodily and spiritnal. They snppose that in Christ's revelation of the Father's heart, ver. 25 Christ refers first to the spiritual Christ's demonstration of the Father's near- renovation, to ha affirmed and consummated ness and cha.meter. Westcott quotes the in the universal resurrection and judgment apocryphal saying of our Lord preserved by of the last day. The generality of the Clement of Alexandria., • Str.,' ii. 9. 45, "He terms •-y•ipu and (wo11'ot<i, attributed to the tho.t wonders shall reign, and he that reigns Father, makes it possible that the Lord shall rest." The wonders of grace will never was referring to the numerous events of uplifting from thA pit, from the lowest 1 The first worcl, tp,>..<w, ocours thirteen she6l, which formed the staple religious times in this Gospel-once of the Father's nutrition of the Jewish race. The historv love to the Sou (here), o.nd of his love to of Divine revelntiou is one lengthened those that love the Sou (eh. xvi. 27): three series of interpositions ancl deliverances, of times of the love of Jesus to his disciples resurrections of the people of Israel, and (eh. xi. 3, 36; XX, 2); six times of their of the theocrr,cy from bondage, exile, and love to him (oh. xvi. 27; xxi. 15, 16, 17, spiritual and civil death, and of references twice); and twice in other connections (eh. to the wonderful transformations of saints xii. 25: xv. 19). It does not occur in the nnd prophets nnd kings from the depths of Epistles. 'A-ya.11'nv occurs thirty-seven times despair to the light of life and Divine in the Gospels, thirty times ill the Epistles, fovour. Ezekiel (xxxvii.) had likene,l ro denote all these relations, but the love the most memorable of these resurrectiont1, indicated by this worJ is tllat which is to the uprising of a huge army from e.. generated by respeot, oonfi<lence, and admi- volley of visioo,, strown with the dry bones, ration (Tittmanu, 'Syn. in N.T.; • Trenoh, of both house, of Israel. '' So also," sa.vs • Syn, of Gk. 'l'eet.'). Jesus, "the t::.,n quickeneth," incluJi1ig  't'tm GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOIIN. [en. v, 1-41.