The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 265

nnotbc>r nnrl t.n me)-would be loving itl Snrely the whole canto.et with the world own. Th<' world lo'l"<'B its priests &nd mouth- wns not Rn utter fl\llure. Ohrist did win pi<'r0a. i1• own orgnuization (" Oai&phRe persons from all ol1LSSes, and they loved I'iln1<', Hc>rod, nnd Jude.a, and all deYils,'l !Jim, with 11. passionnte love; n.nd so the Luth.-r); the 'l'l"orld Iovea its own ofl'spring. apostles, and all who " go forth to ben.r :But becaue ye are not of the world, but I fniit," may hope for some viotories, nnd ohoee yon, wit.hdrnvl'ing you for my eer,;ce, will tre.vail in birth with the souls of men. out of the world (the two meaninge of it< Ver. 21.-But all theee things will they here difl'er; the firet ;,, rlenotee origin, the do unta you.• By way of consol11tion, he 1M.,'<'Ond oorresponde with 1.h<' compound ,,,. in added, in view of the n.ntngonism which the i,r'A.l-yoµa,), therefore the world hatetb you. world would deliberately pursue towards I have caused yon to brenk with it, and you them, For my Name'■ ■ake. Many suppose nre no long-er " ib! own." J net in propor- that the consolatory element is empluuiized in tion as you are one with me, you drnw upon this cl11.use. However, the idea contained in ..-oun;cJ f its hatred of me. "The offence of the 3,tt ,.1, lwoµd µou he.s been 11lready ex- i.hc cross" ie not OCMed. Thoma comments pressed in the previous verses, and the whole on the harmony between this statement and of the verse so far merely go.there it up for that of the Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypse, o. new and suggestive explanation. For the whose coloure and features are here, o.s he Name of Christ these disciples will not only thinks, drawn upon. It is profoundly inter- pray, labour, suffer, and die, but in the esting to trace the folfilment of the Lord's power of it they will tre.nsmute their sorrows prei<cient words in earlier Scripture (I Pet. into rRptures, their tribulations into glory. iv.17; Ilom.riii. 17; Galvi 17; Pldliii, :Because they know not him thn.t sent me. 10; Heh. xii. 3). If they had known tho heart n.nd nature of Ver. 20.-Remembar the word whiah I the Sender, they would hllve understood the llp8ke to yov. (see Matt. L 24, but espeoially mission of the Saviour, nnd would neither eh. xiii. 16, where Christ used the proverb), have hated him nor his representations. The servant i& not greater than hill lord. In (Here Liieke, Hengstenberg, Lnthn.rdt, n.nd eh. xiii. 16 the idea wes used to enforce the Lange are prefemble to Meyer nnd Godet.) spi:'it of humility and mutual service; it It is ntter grief to Jesue that the world has applies also !Jere, bat in another sense. The been ignorant of the Fe.ther. This igno- disciples are not to expeot better treatment rance explllins its nntagonism to the repre- from the world than their Lard met with. sentntives of Christ, and is the most n.ppalling If they (used of "the world" in its special witness to its own depravation. No fn.ot is concrete mo.nifestations; "they" of Nazareth more patent in the entire history of hume.n o.nd Caperon.nm and Jerll88lem correspond thoughts about God than this, tha.t " the witll the "they" of Lyeaonie., Ephesus, world by wisdom knows him not," ne.y, it Thessulonica, and Rome) perseonted me, travesties his Name, misrevresents his ehn.- they will perseaute--drive awe.y from them racter, distrusts, fears, and flees from the -yon also. The "if" is remarkably ex- face of God. It we.a leU to Christ to reveal plicit ; there is no doubt about it in Christ's the Father. In many different menial ten- case, e.nd the snpposition is one of defi- dencies even Christendom bes obscured or nite nnd acknowledged fact, and the con- denied the Fatherhood. ditioll.lll sentence most positively usurea Ver. 22.-If I had not come, e.a the in- tht:m of antagonism a.ud persecution. It is camn.te Word of God, if I had not fulfilled probable, though not cert.a.inly known, that the promises and come forth from God into the:oc disciples all endured a living martyr- the world to reveal the Father, e.nd spoken dom, if not a crnel death in his cause. Then to them, ma.de known to them the ;thought follows a sentence which has by some and Spirit of God, me.de it possible for them unwisely been snpposed to be ironical, to know the essence of the only true God, and by others to refer to another subject. they had had• no sin; they would not have JJ they-others, or many, or aome---kept resisted the highest love, their n.liene.tion (i.e. "observed," " obeyed," not es Bengel 1 Els bµat is the reading ~•, B, D, L, I, supposed, "laid in wait," or "kept malici- ously") my word, they will keep 7011r11 also.' 38, e.nd is adopted by Tisohendorf (8th Wby should irony be interpolated here? edit.), R.T., and Tregelles; while bµiv of T.B. rests on A, n•, r, A, A, ond other 1 See eh. riii 51 ; xiv. 23; xvii 6; a.ud uncials and several versions. 1 "To have sin" is a phrase peculiar to other JlW!Bages in John ; see al.ao Rev. iii 8, 10. Plummer points out that both phrases John (eh. xix. 11; 1 John i. 8). Tischen- link the Gospel with the First Epistle and dorf (8th edit.), Tregelles, Westcott and with the Apocalypse (I John ii 3, 4; iii. 22, Hort, with ~•. D, L, etc:, here read ,rxolTav, 2¼; v. 2, 3; Bev. iii. 8, JO; ~ 17; xiv. 12; an Alexn.ndrine form; but not the T.R, or :nii. 7, 9). R. T. D• re11.da .Yxciv. oil. xv. 1-27.J 'l'RE GOSPEL ACCORDING 'J'O ST. JOHN. 27;;