The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 225

thnt Josue apoke these worcls of the hn- fenco of the Nicene Creed,' bk. iv.; West- milinlctl Christ in hie condition of e. sor- cott's cnteoa ofpassogee in• Additionfll Note ,•nnl-obedient unto clenth. Tho Son, the to eh. xiv.;' Lange e.nd P. Schaff, • Comm. Logos of God, wos thut Mocle or Personality on John'). of Doily by which "Goel" orentcd tho uni- Ver. 29.-And now I have ea.id it to you vorse, gov<irnocl mnnkincl, 11ncl proceeded by before it come to pa.ea-I have told you of speciul mllnifcetntion-incarnation, lifo, and my departure and what is involved in it- do1J.th--to redeem tho world. Cnlvin boo that when it is oome to pass, ye may believe. anid, while the Arinne hnve abused this Christ often 11ppenle to the effect which the testimony, tho orthodox solution or the fulfilment of hie own predictions will pro- Futhers wus neither harmonious nor sound ; dace in the minds of his disciples (eh. i. 51; tho trno significntion of the pnssnge, nccorcl- xiii. 19). They will, when the series ing to him, being found in the mediatorial of events will unroll themselrne, believe office of the Christ, and in his status ez- that he h11s gone to the Father, to do all inanilionis, But this would not exhnust he sGid ho would do, to be nil he said he the meaning, for in this very pnssa.ge he was. This means undoubteclly more than <lore describe the Fnther 11s greGter even a spiritual consolation whereby they may thnn the ezal!ed Christ ; 11nd in eh. i. 1-3 endure his separation by death from their as greater even them the pre-existent Logos. society. It is the announcement beforehand Ancl so (3) we 11ro led to see thnt there is of the Resurrection and Ascension, by which indeod e. suborclinGtion of mnk and order in their faith in his exaltation would be fanned the Son, involved in tho very notion even into burning fie.me and me.de a revelation of an eterne.l genemtion; ancl compGtible of Divine love to the universe. with the equnlity of Being and of essence Ver. 30.-I will no longer talk much with which he she.red with the Fe.ther. Thie is you. This seems strange when there follow undoubtedly confirmed by eh. xvi i. 3, 5; eh. xv.-xvii.; but it gives ll hint of the 1 Cor. xv. 27; Phil. ii. !l-11; 1 Cor. iii. nbundance of instruction, of 71.all.!a, of 71.o")lor, 23; xi. 3; ond has been through the whole which John at least had heard, of which he history of Christologic11l speeulntion con- has only given the specimens of a few short ceded (Bishop Bull,' in his three chnptors days of intercourse. For the prince of the 1 on the "Subordinntion of the Son," has world (see eh. xii. 31); the lorcl and master, shown, by abundant proof, that before and by be.so usurpation, of the worh.l of men. after the Council of Nicmo., the Fathers This term is continually found in rabbinical held "thnt the Son has indeed the same writings fer the great centre.I power of evil Divine no.lure in common with the Fnther, in the world. The activity of evil was then but communicated by the Fnther in such at work. Sa.ton entered into Judas; the sense, i.e., tli11t •the Father alone bath the spirit of evil was mmpant in all the machi- Divine nature from himself, but the Son nation of the lenders of the people. The from the Father; thnt the Father is the eagles of this impure host were gathering. Fountain, Origin, 11nd Principle of the The last conflict impended. Tlie ptince of Divinity which is in the Son"). This the world, who elm.II be co.st out, judged is abundantly needful to avoid at once and conquered, oometh, and ha.th nothlng in the errors of tritheism, and to mo.int11in the me. The conllict between the second Adam real unity of the Divine Being. Christ's and the devil culminates. Christ looks going to the FGther wns a ground of re- through the whole army of his opponents, joicing, becnuee his exalto.tion through e.nd feels that he has to wrestle with the denlh and resurrection to the position of ruler of the dMkness of the world, but at power and majesty unutternble, and the the snme time is sublimely conscious the.t lifting up of his Divine-human Personality there is nothing in him on whicb. the evil to the midst of the throne, gives to him, in can fasten. Christ certainly cle.ims e. sin- his relations with his disciples, the efficacy lessness of inner nGture which no other of the greafness of that Divine nature se.int has arrogated to himself. Accusations which, by its own charo.cteristics, could not of the world were numerous enough, but ho.ve l>ecome ince.mate. The unrevealed those who brought them were ignorant.. God is greGter than the revei.led. The Now he has to do with one who knows lifting, up of perfect humanity into the him, but not so well a.s he knows himself. glory which the Son h11d with the Fathor The double negation, ovi< tx" ovBlv, must be before lho world was, should have been the cause of joy to the discipltn. It is the well- 1 To6-ro11, omitted by Tischendorf (8th spring ol' joy to the Church (see• Snicer, edit.), Tregelles, R.T., etc., with ~. B, D, • 'l'hesnurus,' nrt. M.. (o~OT1JJ; Bull's • De- L, X, r, A, numerous cursives, versions, and Fathers. The word hujua is found in many 1 • Defence of the Nicene Creed,' Oxford manuscripts of Old Latin 1md Fathers, a.nd edit., bk. iv, is found in T.R., Griesbach, etc.  232 ·nm GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOUN. [CH, XIV, 1-31.