The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 332

nlreo.dy nchleved. Throughout this prayer power ovAr 0.nd hie own grace to the chilrlren he rognrds the work ns finished, and the of men; from vers. 6-19 be contempl0.tes the now order of things 11s 11lreo.dy existent. Bpeoiel interests of his disciples, in their Thus he bo.d pr11yod for Lo.z11rus and for present forlorn conrl.ition, in their work, conflict, and ultimo.to triumph ; from vors. his reetoro.lion from the gmve, and he knew 19-26 he prays for the whole Church, then that God henrd him; but still he wept, (a) for its unity, (b) for its expansion, (c) iti- nnd, groo.ning within himself, came to the se- glory. "For himself he hns little to ask pulchre. It should also be remembered that (vers. 1-5), but as soon as his word ti<kes (oh. xiv. 80) he had expressly said that he the form of intercession for his own ( vers, 6-26), it becomes an irresistible stream of wos then about to encounter the prince of the most fervent love. Sentence rushes upon this world. The perfect humanity of Jesus, sentence with wonderful power, yet the on which John oontinuBIJy insists, does en- repose is never disturbed" (Ewald). Father; tirely justify the rapid changes of mood and not "my l!'ather," nor "our Father," the the vohemonoe of the emotions which were in prayer given to his disciples, nor "my God" as afterwards upon the cross; nor wa.s it their conflict issuing in sublime courage and the customary address to " God" of either perfeot peace. The school of Renan, Strlluss, Pharisee or publican; but it recalls the and others, following the lead of Bret- " Abba, Fnther" of the garden, which passed schneider, see insuperable difficulties, because thence into the experience of the Church they have an idea of Christ's Person which (Rom. viii. 15; Gal. iv. 6). The hour which ha.a so often presented itself as inevitable, would render it inconceivable and inoredible but which so often has receded, and which (see lntrodnotion, p. cvi.). even now delays its full realization ( eh. ii., vii., xii., xiii.) as part of a. Divine plan con- Vere. 1-5.-(1) With reference to himself. cerning him, the hour of the fiery baptism, Ver. 1.-Jesue spake these things; i.e. the of the solemn departure, of the conflict with discourse which precedes, and then turned the prince of this world, and of complete from his disciples to the Father. The place acceptence of the Father's will, hae come; ..-here the prayer was offered is compara- glorify thy Son, that (thy 1) the Son may tively unimportant, yet it must have been (also 1) glorify thee. Lift thy Son into the uttered somewhere. It has been well sug- glory which thou hast prepared, that the gested that the Lord, with the disciples, Son whom thou hast s:mctified and sent into sought the comparative quiet of the F11ther's the world may glorify thee. It is very house, and in some of the courts of the noticeable thet he speaks of himself in the temple, within sight of the golden gate with third person. Thls is justified by the fact its mighty vine, had enacted all that is that he here conspicuously rises out of him- recorded in oh. xv.-xvii. This does not self into the consciousness of God, and loses interfere with the idea that the starry sky himself in the Father. The glorification of was visible to them, and that from some the Son is first of all by death issuing in life. portion of the temple-courts our Lord should He was crowned with glory in order that he have lifted his eyes to heaven; for the might taste dea.th for every man. The con- heaveus are the perpetual symbol of the flict, the victorious combat with death, was majesty of God, and show that side on which, the beginning of his glory. In ta.king upon by instinctive recognition of the fact, men himself ell the burden of human sorrow, and may and do look out upon the infinite and exhausting the poison of the sting of death, the eternal. And having' lifted up hie eyes to he would "glorify God" (cf. eh. xxi. 19), heaven-or, lifting (Revised Version) up his This does not exhaust the meaning, but the eyes to heaven-he said, iu a voice which the further forms and elemeut.3 of his glory are wondering, believing, and troubled disciples referred to afterwards. might hear (see ver. 13), and from which Ver. 2.-Even as thou gavest him authority they were intended to learn much of the -an indefeasible elaim of iufluence and inti- relRtion between their Lord and the eternal mate orga.nio relations with humanity-over Father. There is a twofold division of the all flesh. [This phrase answers to (col bosor) p1·a.yer; From vers. 1-5 ha offers prayer for the Old Testament term for the whole of hu- himself, but in speoia.l relation to his own manity, the entire race, and is one adopted by New Testament writers (Matt. xxiv. 22; 1 The reading ,.,,.dp11r instead of l-rifp•, a.nd Luke iii. 6; 1 Car. i. 29; Gal. ii. 16).] This the omission of 1<11! before •f,,.,v, is preferred 1 The second <rou and ,ea( are omitted bv by Tischendorf, Meyer, Westcott and Hort, the R.T. on the authority of N, B, C, D, L, the R.T., Tischendorf (8th edit.), etc., on th·e X, numerous oursives, Ita.lio, Vulga.te, and authority of::-:, B, C, 47, 6-1:, Godet urges thti Cc-pti<\. re.trntion of the "~•  34-2 TRE GOSPEL AC'CORDING TO ST. JORN. [on. xvn. t-28