The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 179

"the use of fva in the New Testament," Ez- into tl1e heut of Ju<lnR. The devil having pnaito,·, vol. iii. 2nd series)-he, Jesus, the Son already oaet into the heart (of J,alnR) thnt of man, should depart out of this world (this ha-Mayer's suggestion that the dP,vil put is one theme of the following cliseourse, one this design into his own heart, doe.a n0t of its key-notes, eh. xiv. 12; xvi. 28; xvii. lighten tl,o construction, au<l cnc11ml,er., the 11, and many other paesugcs) unto the passage witl, id,·ns whi<"h nro forci•m to I ho Father, If so, death was not an ending of Bible-( ~von) Judas, (the son) of Simon, lifo, buta departure to the Fathcr-aeoming the Iscar1ot, should betro.y him.' The i'1,·n into closer and more intimate relations and co.me from the devil, but the purpose of tho communion with the Father than was pos- devil was not ii-revocable. The evan.,.elist 0 aiblo, oven for him, in this sinful and evil looked through hie ten.rs of love t.o the world. Frequently the demonstrative pro- traitor's face e.s he ant at meat, nnd felt how noun is used to designate this transitory, the very excess and uttermost and hyperbole perilous, sad state of being. Further, Jesus of love we.a reached and Bea.led by the con- having loved his own, his very own, whom tact between the treachery of the one and the lt'u.ther had given him, who were and the Divine humiliation of the other. The would continue in the world, and ha.ve contrast between these two mental states is tribulation there (see eh. xv. 18-20; xvi. one of the most striking antitheses in tbo 1-4, 33; xvii. 11, 14, 18), and all the more Gospel. But how should John know that so because of his departure and the cessa- Judas ba.d e.lready plotted the betrnyal of tion of his eu.rthly manifestation and his Master? Hengstenberg makes the wise ministry. Here the sentence ends with suggestion tha.t the fourth evangelist was the elimacterio expression, He loved them acquaintecl with the synoptic tradition of utterly ; i.e. he manifested, and the.t before the priority of Judae's barge.in with the the Pu.schu.l Lamb should be slu.in for them, chief priests (Matt. xxvi.14--16; Mark xiv. his absolute, extreme, unutteru.ble love. 10, 11; Luke xxii. 3-6). Archd<=e.con Wu.tkins has made u.n interest- Ver. 3.-• Knowing-a significant hint of ing suggestion, that ,ls .,-,!J,.os represents, in the complex wonder of the Lord's Person. Greek, the Hebrew idiom of the repetition John felt at this moment that the conscious- of the action of the verb; whereas the ness of Jesus was receding into the eternal LXX. often presents this Hebru.iam in self-consciousness of the Loges when he literu.l Greek, u.s Gen. xx. 17, yet in Amos thus ventures to spea.k-that the Father- ix. 8 e. similar reduplication is Grecized by in tile great act of his generation-gave 3 all the phrase ,ls .,-/J,.os; and thu.t whe.t St. things into his hands, and that he came forth John, a Hebrew writing in Greek, meant (&,rb) from God, and was goingback(or,airny) by the use of it was simply," He loved them to God, in the glory of his incarnation and the with a fulness of love." '.rhia usage is con- mystery of bis death and resurrection. The firmed by l Thess. ii. 16, by later Greek whole of the incarnate ministry of Jesus was and by classical usage, It probably means e. separation, to some extent, ti·om God, just in Luke xviii. 5 "at last," but not neces- as the close of it, in the death aud re,ur- sarily so even there. Margin of Revised rection, was a return to the 11:lory which he Version gives "to the uttermost," had with the Father before all worlds. We Ver. 2.-A supper having commenced; or, must admit the extraordinary quality of being then in progress •-without doubt the the evangelist's assertion. He here throws meal in which our Lord terminated the Old Testament dispensation and introduced the 1 T.R., with A, D, r, A, e.nd Syriac Ver- New, and which John discriminates, there- sions, here transposes the sentence, thus: fore, from the Pe.ssover prc,per referred to in 'loV8a. '%lµ0111os 'Icr,ca.p,WTov t'.va. ciV-rl>v 1rapaO'P~ ver. 1. '.rhe evangelist now reverts to the "of Judas son of Simon the Iscariot to clia.bolie design which had been injected betray him." The text of Tischendort~ R.T., and cill. modern editors rests on ~. B, 1 T.R. here reads, with A, D, A, I, 33, and L, M, X, Vulgate, e.nd numerous quoto.tious o.11 the ancient ve1·sions, 6,/,rvou -y,voµ.evou ; from Origen. but, on the authority oft(, B, L, X, O1·igen, ' Griesbach, La.chmann, and others sus- and Nonnus, Tischendorf (8th edit.), Meyer, ts.in the reading <I ·1~0-oiis, on the aut.ho- Westcott and Hort, e.nd Revised Version rity of A, r, A, 11., n, and numerous versions. read -ywoµ.evov. Godet does not accept the Tischendorf (8th edit.), Tregelles, and R.T. reading, thinking that . it is e. correction, omit it, with t(, B, D, L, X, with Yulgate intended to put the washing o.t the begin- and 2Ethiopio. ning rather them u.t the end of the feast. • The lievised Version translates " had Liicke, on the se.mo intorn11l grounds, justi- given," though reading l~w,cev, with Tischen- fies the tro.uslation, "during the me11l," dorf (8th edit.). Westcolt and Hort, '.r.R., "wl1en the supper took pll\ce" (ge,chah oder e.nd L1101lmann, with A, D, X, etc., reuJ u•ar). Se6w/CEV, 186 TH& GOSPEL AOOORDING TO ST. JOHN. [ou. xin.1-38,