limr• in the Rtyle of ,John hims.,lf (see oh. world. Tho portion of the cllllpter which iv. 27; vii. 13; xii. 42: xx. 5; xxl. 4), not follows is regnrded by most commentators, onco by our Lord, 'Oµo}.o-y•iv ngnin is need four times by the evangelist, and seven Liicke, Meyer, Godet, Olehaueen, and West- times in the Epistles nnrl A poonlypse, but cott, BB B summary of our Lord's teaching, never put by Liim into the lips of Jesus. llB 11, reiteration by the evangelist of those NevertheleBB many of the rulor1 believed on aalient points of the Lord's ministry which, him, Thoso words nro nsetl, not to mitigate while they are the life of the world, aro tho ~hnrgo, but to show that, though indi- nevertheless the grounds on which 1,Iinde<l viduo.ls did believe, oven among the rulers, thoy ho.cl not courage to avow their faith. eyes and hnrdene,l hearts rejected him. The instances of Nicodemus e.nd Joseph e.nd Vere. 44--46 clmracterize the believer ; othors lie upon the surfnce. Godet thinks vers. 47, 48 emphasize Christ's relation to ro.thor of Ge.mnliel ond the like, " the Ere.a- the nnbeliover; vers. 49, 50 the principle muses of those days." Theirs wo.e, indeed, upon which both deliverances turn and will nn hypocrisy of unbelief, and it is not al- together banished from the modem world, continue to tum. There are those who and notwithstanding Christ's rejection by the think that these were special private ad- nation o.s n nation, individuals saw his glory dressee to the disciples, uttered after our o.nd believed. It is still true of municipali- Lord {11<pofJ11) was bidden, but the wor,l ties, nations, even Churches, that they reject (lt<pa!•) "cried aloud," would not then have Christ, while individuals among them are moulded by and obedient to the faith. But been llSed, as it was used for the most pub- by reason of the Pho.risecs-onr Lord's most lic expressions of his doctrine, when given dendly enemies, from eh. i. to ob. xii.-they once for all (here comp. eh. vii. 28, 37, with were making no oonfession-or, acknCY1Dledg- Luke xviii. 39). Keim, De Wette, Baur, ment-of his claims, lest they should be put and Hilgenfeld think that, because there is out of the synagogue; become the excommn- nioate, fo.11 under the terrible ban (see eh. no fresh depa.rtnre here, it is proof that all ix. 22). The fear of class exclusion, the the dieconrsee of Christ in John are simi- dread of running counter to the current larly pnt t.ogetber with no historical bBBis. opinion of the Church or the world, hBB led But if it be so, this di1fere strangely from all to much of the misery of both. the rest of our Lord's discourses recorded by Ver. 43.-The generalization ie given ns n reason, For they loved the glory (8&(.., John in thnt it has no occa&on, or persons, very nearly in the original Greek use of the or opportunity to which it seems to fit. word," opinion," "good reputation'') of men, Certain o.oriats suggest the idea that John very much more (1j,rep, another New Testa- has here given specimeDll of our Lord's ment, /1.,ra{ l\.E-y&µEvov, occurring in the ne.rrn- appe:ils which bad ended in hie being re- tive portion of John, and a mode in which jected by the nation ae a. whole. Lutha.rdt the negative force of the fl is heightened: see Meyer, Jelf, p. 779, and English edition takes the view of these words being spoken ur Winer, p. 549) than the glory of God. rotidem wrbia on our Lord's deporlnre, e.nd '1.'he form of the expressions, "of God" and with him Hengstenberg a.lso agrees. These "of men," ie different from the ,rapil Tov oritics suppose that they form the closing ,.&vou e,ov and ,rape& clM.~'-"'v of eh. v. 44, words of our Lord's publio ministry, delayed and the statement ie apparently incon- sistent with the deolaration that those in by the interca.lw-y remarks of Ute evangelist, snob n stnte of mind "oould not believe." and really belong to the close of the thirty- Moulton suggests thnt the glory here Sllth verse. Though the expressions that thought of by the apostle wns the" glory" follow are built upon the discourses else- of ver. 41-the glory of the union of the where uttered, we admit, with Hengstenberg, Redeemer with his people, the glory of suffering and death. 'l'he reference to Isn. that there is no verbal pe.roJ.Iel that iB vi. appears to be the true solution. The 11t oll close, o.nd that therefore the evange- glory of God himself in his o.wful holiness list must not be quoting from what he had wo.s of less interest than the glory of the already reported, but giving the substance Snnhec\rin o.nd the approval of the world. of o. threefold olllSS of observations found Alo.a I this glory is nearer, •moie obvious, o.nd hns more to do with tangible, sensuous, from one end of the Gospel to the other, and advnnto.gos, th11n the Divine approval. in words that he had heard the MtlSter u1e.
Vere, 44-50.-7. The BUmmation of the Vere. 44, 45.-J'esns oried e.nd so.id, He mprem6 conflict betwe1111 our Lord and the ~ t believeth on me, believeth not 011 me, H8 THE GOSPEL ACOORDJNG TO ST. JOHN. [ou. xn. 1-liO.