The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 188

herg. Tholnck, Lange, M•Olelhtn) take the dieciplee to the uttermost (,lr .-b .-b. os), Jotter new, hnrmonil!lin~ John with the The endea".our ma<le hy Strauss, to nrgue Hy11optiete ; but ooneidenng a.11 the other from the e1lcnce of the fourth evangelist diffieultics that arise, Meyel', Godet, and that he know nothirg of tbo luetltution of We!!lcott tnkc the former view. The 1111p• the Eucharist, is a great exaggeration. Tho po!!ition of a gift to the poor from the little eynoptio tradition must, ea: liypothui of the i;tock is very @uggeetive of the almsginng late authorship of the Goepel, be well known spirit tliat liad pervaded all the he.bite of to the author, and 1 Cor. xi. 33, eto., wee disciples mnght by Christ (of. eh. xii. 5; ample proof of ite hietorio bBSia. There Gal. ii. 10). Beng..hmberg nrgee that the we.a, in the entire representation of this night of the Pll,Sf!over wns that above all Gospel, an intonse perception of the inner others on which the poor needed help to meaning of the Eucharist, and of tho new rejoioo before the Lord. oovenant and commandment bnscd on the Ver. 30.-He tha having reoaived the assumption of the Passion and death of the BOP went out straightway : mul. it wu night. incarnate God: so that instead of describing There is no adva.nte.ge to be secured by the ceremonial, he expounds it.e ideas (see omitting the oii11, and connecting the ~" Ii~ Introduction, pp. ov., evi.). vo{ with the;;.,.. (nv) 'liiMI•, nor ie it pre- ferred by Ille later editol'B. The immediate Ver, Sl--0h. xvi. 83.-3. Tlllll VALE- departure of Judas when he had taken the DIOTOnY DISCOUliSES OF .THE LORD. sop is compntible with all tb.e context-a Vere. 81-38.-(1) Tl&e glorification of the horror of the shadow of death falls on the Son of man, and of the FaU,er in the Son. tragic scene. He at least passes out into the With ver. 31 the solemn valedictory dis- outer darkness, apt symbol of his soul and of his deed. Hengstcnberg im&gines the course of our Lord commences-a veritable Lord's Supper to have followed the previous evangeliuom in evangelio, and by the aid of words, a.nd that the •bells must be inter- which we come more closely to the heart or preted with some la.xi.ty, lea.ring time fol' Jesus. "Here," as Olshausen ea.ye, "we are the sacred meal to have been instituted and entering the holy of holies in the Po.esion- the solemn song to have been Bllllg. It is history ." We have, indeed, come through <liffi.cult to sny where the Eucha.ristic service is to be introdnced, and every possible sug- the courts of the temple, we have left the gestion has been made. The statement of courts of the Gentiles, of the women, of the Luke :=ii. 21, 22 makes it probable tho.t priests behind us, and he.ve been waiting the traitor was present e.t it. And o.ll the in the holy place of sacrifice a.nd incense synoptists mo.ke the indication of the traitor and ablution; now we follow our great follow the institution of the Eucharist, and two of them pince it on the very wny to the High Priest to the veil over the holiest of ge.rdeu of Gethsemane. Bengel, in harmony all, and he prepares us to listen to the with his chronological scheme, snppoees that intercession tho.t he makes before the un- the ire.i.tor went out and returned. Accord• veiled ma.jesty of the Fe.ther'e love. The ing to Keim, the Eucho.ristic meal may be first section, extending from eh. xiii. 31- supposed to be introduced at the close of xiv. 31, reports e. series of questions by eh. xiv. and before the discourse on the vi.De; but that discourse follows a summons Peter, Thom~, Philip, Jude, which all turn of JesUB to his disciples to leave the upper more or less on the e.ntioipated separation chamber. And every attempt to find e. which he teaches them to regard ae a place for it in the midst of the valedictory veritable glorification of the Son of man, discourse is 1lll8atisfactory (see these amply and also as n higher revelation to them of discnseed in Godet, Liicke. Meyer). Thus Paulus, etc., place ii after ver. 30. Liicke and the nature of his own Person e.ud of those :MByer, between vers. 33 and 34; but Peter's relations between " the Son " and " the question looks beck to ver. 33, allowing no Father" which are imaged and shadowed ,;ach break. Neander and Ebrard plaoe forth in those between "the Son of ma.n ". after ver. 92. Tholuck, after ver. 34. Lange and "God.," which they could more readily identifies it with the new commandment ; o.wl. Bengel makes the disoour&e down understand. This prepares the way for to eh. xiv. 81 precede Christ's journey to the discourse and prayer which followed, in Jernsa.lem to keep tha Pa.eso\"er, so the.t which the future spiritunl union between oo alashing takes pla.ce. I think that the the victorious Lord and his own disciples, simplf:8t 410lntion of the dilliculty ie to put between a S(lncti.fied humanity and the it at the oommencement of the feast, and in the folds u it were of the sentence in eh. eternal Godhead, is exhibited, distinguished :l:iii. 2, which tells UB that Jesus loved his by wonderful blending of intuiti.ve insight cu. xnr. 1-38.] 'l'IIE GOSPEL ACCOilDfNG TO ST. JOTIN.