The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 294

will, like that or righleousnees, be preceded at thia epooh of year training. Ghrist (eh. by two stupendous objective foots-the exal- xiv. 18, etc., in a pnsso.ge which he procccrla tation of Ohriet ond the jodgment of Satan. to enlarge and deepen) he.e already so.hi The gloriflootion or the Bon of man, to the thnt the coming to them of the Pamcleto extent of his being deolored to be the Son would be one method of his own Divine of God with power, will be the grand approach lo them for pnrposes of conaoln- event which humon nature will be power- tion 11nd instruction; consequently he docs less to counteract or uHimately to resist. not now allow them to suppose that, thou!;'h "Know assuro,lly thnt this snmo Jesus separated from them by death, be would whom 7,ou have oruciJled is both Lord ond ever ce1<se to instruct them. They could Obrist. ' The judgment of the prince of not in their present condition, and before this world is also o. fact lying outside tho the great events should have happened- politics of the world, which moy fume ond events on which so much revealing fact rage e.s it will; it is beyond the reiu,h of would tum-bear the revelation of these the philosophy or literature, the courts or "many things." Pentecost will enable them e.rmies, the fashions or the force, of this to appreciate the full mystery of love. The worl<l. 'fhe central prince and spirit of word used for "bear" is that which is used the world is judged by the Lord Jesus, and (eh. xix. 17) to describe the bearing of tl,e condemned; ond the time is coming when c1·oss by Christ himself. Some have found the old standard of judgment will be cast in these "many things" new articles of out, e.nd the world will be compelled to doctrine which ho.ve been preserved by e.dmit the.t it hos been vanquished (eh. xii. tradition ; and others, a development of 31). The conviction concerning sin, right- truths already presented in'germ; and others, eousness, e.nd judgment, by the e.id of the again, much of the future order of the Advocate whom Christ will send, will be- world and the Church, such as gradually come the great work of the apostles and of evolved itself to the vision and insight the Ohurch, until he comes again in his and spiritual wisdom of apost.olic men. Bat glory. While commenting upon this sub- they could not, on the eve of the Passion, lime assurance the awful process must not he.ve borne the full mystery of the at.one- be forgotten, nor the fact the.t the prince of ment, or sufficiently have comprehended ihe the world dies he.rd. The e.trocious wicked- glory of the enthroned King. ness which burst out after the exaltation of Ver. 13.-Xowbait when he, the Spirit ot Christ among the people who had rejected truth, is come. This points t.o the definite their Lord, and the consummation of the promise already made (conditionated by mystery of iniquHy in the Romon empire, was his own departure, and so rendering that a part of the providential conviction of the departure "expedient") when the Spirit of world. Archdeacon Hare, in his 'Mission of truth is come, having been sent by me from the Comforter,' insists that the entire con- the Father. Xe will be your Guide (so tho.t viction of judgment, righteousness, e.nd sin you will not be mere pe.ssive instruments, mnst be the work of "the Oomforter;" that but living agents. "Things" may be all the objective facts, all the teaching of transported, but "persons" only can be example, e.11 the thunder of prophecy, ne.y, "guided." The pillar of fue a.n,\ cloud led all the outward demonstration of sin, right- the way, and Israel struck its camp a.nd eousness, and judgment, made in and by the followed) into the truth in all its parts. 1 incarnation e.nd sacrifice of Christ, must be As Godet says, " The reading els suits complemented by the grace of the Holy dli1ryf11Te1 better than /11." A most glorious Spirit on individuals, nations, and humanity promise this, for as days of darkness a.nd at large; and that it is in the capacity of perplexity draw on, fresh needs will a.rise. human " Comforter," or "Advooo.te," that The "many things" which would thus be this conviction is wrought. said must be presumed to ho.ve been sa.id on highestnuthority; and hence the Ullapproo.ch- Vere. 12-15.-(b) The power of th6 Para- able dignity of the apostles themselves; clete on the disciplu themsel11es. From the hence th& ijecret of all their binding e.nd twelfth to the fifteenth verse the relation loosing power ; hence the revelations they of the Pamcleto to the disciples themselves 1 The great bulk of the uncial manuscripts mo.kes yet more evident the expediency of the read els 1ra1T<111 rl,11 C&Af,Brni,,, with T .R. and glorification of the Son of man, and demon- R.T., etc., "into all (the) truth." Tre- strates the authority of the apostolic teaohing. gelles, Lange, Westcott and Hort, read eis T,!v d11.,/8E1<1v 1ra,n,11, with A and B, " into Ver. 12.-Notwithstanding the abundnnce truth in all its parts" (Tregelleij, § 454). D of the revelations which Christ had given, and L ree.d ;,, rff i',.f,11.8e1<1 ,ra,rp, with Ti- still said he, I have many things yet to tell eohendorf (8th edit.); ~. l11 rfi i',.;-..f,8«<f, West- 1ou,• but 70 OOIIJlOt bear them now ( ctpr,); i.e. cott und Hort put it in the ml\fgin.  THE GOSPEL AOOORDING TO ST, JOHN, [cu. xvi. 1--33,