The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 178

EXPOSITION. kept from him till that moment, nor was CHAPTER xm. his love to his own disciples limited or l\'. T11E FINAL MANl::FBSTATIONSIN WORD qualified by the advent of the Passover. A.NU AarroK OF TB.II: Looos INOARNATE, His far better, with Westcott, God et, Meyer, EX.PRl(SSING ITSELF ABSOLUTELY AND TO and Lange, to to.ke the phrase, 7lpb 8~ Ti)s THE UTTEIWOST All LoVI:. (Ch. xili.- ,opnjs, with the principal verb, 71,yd.1r11tr•v. ni.) This becomes more obvious if ,ls -,b.os be In two divisiona- ta.ken, u it generally is taken, in Greek, to mean "unto the uttermost," "absolutely," A. The inner glnrifi,MJ,ion of the Christ in "perfectly." tl..e pre.sence of those who reoei,'Ded and be- Godet and Liicke add to the ides of a:ycz71d.o, here the manije1Jtation., or lieved on 1.im. proof, of the intensity and tenderness of the • • • The Logos incame.te as life, light, Divine love. Meyer doubts this signification love, 11.lld sacri1ioe, lavishing all hia grace of a.')'cz7l&.,.,. The whole of the intervening upon his own (eh. xiii.-xvii.). sentence is in apposition with the subject B. The outer g1.orification of Uia Chrut of the sentence. TI,e evangelist was eye- in M,IJ l'aMion and ruu.N'edion.. witness of the manner and look of his Lord, • • • The fully manifested love laying and ventured to say what was p11ssing in down life that he might take it again, anu hie mind. He wss justified by what fol- lift these disciples int.o vita.I union with lowed, and threw back into the spirit of thf: risen life (eh. xviii-:u:i.). this strange and solemn action the e.ocount which the Lord afterwards ·gave of himself. A. Tm: !NNEB GLOII.IFICATlOJII OF PERFI!ICT Throughout the whole passage we detect Lon. the extraordinary blending of Divine and Vers. l-17.-l. Lo-oe in humiliation. human of which John was the witness. Ver. 1.-liowbefarethe Feut of the Pu• 181111 knowing (ss he did know) that the over; a phraee fo.r more applicable to the hour was I come--an hour for which be had 13-Hth of NiB&n than to the l4-15th, been long waiting, and to which frequent even thongh the Lord was deeiring then to reference has been made. The crisis bas c:at tht: Passover with 11. gre11.t desire before arrived, the breach with the authorities was he 1,uffered ; therefore .. before" the Pe.e- final, tl.ie disciples themselves were trem- .eion, which wonld coincide with it. This bling in doubt, the great law had been ut- suppliee a chronological note, which is not tered, the glorification of the Son of man exhausted by the o,yeterioUB and pathetic must now be accomplished by departure act which is described, but embraces the rather than by longer ministry, by dellth entire communion of soul with hie disciples, rather than by universal acclaim-that-Yvcz and with tile Father ill their presence, de- here notes the Divine purpose, or what is tailed in eh. xiii.-xvn. Commeutators have not infrequently introduced by fvcz, "the du!ered greatly as to the refertJnce of this contemplated result" (see Canon Evans on phrase-whether to the elBtf.s, as Kling and 1 Tischendorf(Sth edit.), R.T., and West- Luthe.rdt, or to the a")'a'lr1/tTas, as Wieseler and Tholuck; both theae interpretations cott and Hort read ;;>.e,v, with ~. A, l.l, K, limit tbe me11.ning of the passage. Christ's L, M, in place of ,>.~>.v8<1' of T.R. cmd later kuowlo~e tbat his honr was come was not uuci.ala.  lh. xm. 1-M.J TltE GOSP~L ACCORDiNG TO S'i'. JOHN. l!l5