The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 334

period for HA ourront nnd constant uee. Yet whioh thou halt given me to do. M11ny It muet not be forgotten (I) the.t this is " expositnrs arge 11 proleptice.l or anticip11tory unique mouent in his cnrocr, e.nd unir1ue RReertion of the completion of his earthly oxproeelons m11y he e.nticipnteil; (2) that it work, as though the Pll!ision were 11lready wns oalculn';e<l to strengthen hi~ disciples, over, e.ncl he were now uttering the ron/JUffl- to allow them lo hee.r once from his own lips mntum eBt of the cross. This is, however, thesolomn clnim toMessiahship(Hce Godet); included in the next clause. The night b11d (3) that John himself at once adopted it RB come when the ee.rthly ministry is e.t e.n his own (Acts iii. 6, 20; I Jnhn i. 3; ii. I, end. The Jeans Christ, whom the Father 22; iii. 22; iv. 2, 8; v. I, 20; Rev. i. I, hns sent, he.s completed his te.sk. ThP, 2, 5); moreover, (4) in 1 John v. 20 Jesus whole work of the ee.rthly manifestation of Obrist is himself IHted up into the region of the Word we.a at an encl. Suffering remain~, the cl.11.116l11os, and the e.poetle o.dds, " This is the issues of the conflict with evil have to the true God, e.nd eterne.l life " (Hengsten- be encountered; but the die is cast-the berg). It is from these very words thnt some thing is done. The godly life, e.s well as eritics ime.gine tho.t the eve.ngelist, rather the a.toning dee.th, o.re correle.tive parts of the.n the Lord himself, fre.med the cle.use; the merits o.nd work of Christ, 11nd have (5) yet it is quite as rational to suppose the.t glorified the Father. But what a self- the words uttered by Jesus dwelt like a consciousness bee.ms forth in these simple strain of sacred music in the memory of the words I St. Pe.ul, on the verge of his martyr- e.poatle. Moreover, (6) the knowledge of dom, in the midst of the horrors of the Nero- the only true God is ree.lly conditione.ted by nian persecution, exclaimed," I have fought tho knowledge of him who we.s indeed the a good fight, I have finished my course." great Revolution, Organ, and Effiuence of the But our Lord is unconscious of any coming Fe.tber's glory. The fulncss of this know- short of the glory of God ; e.nd he even ledge is the end of all Christian striving. counts on higher power to glorify God by Pe.ul said, "I oount all things but loss for returning to a position which he had for a the exeellenoy of the knowledge of Christ while vacated. Jesus ... and the.t I may know him" (Phil. Ver. 5.-And now (viiv}-the very point of iii. I0). How much is there yet to know I (7) time he.s come-glorify thou me, 0 Father, ex- Fino.Hy, as our Lord is rising more and more plaining the opening of the prayer, "Glorify into the glory of an utter aelf-o.be.ndonment, thy Son." He identifies his own Person- and into the glory which he he.d with the ality-" me "-with that of" the Son," and Father from eternity, the hnme.n ne.tnre ••thy Son." With thyownself(1rap11 <r,auT~); which he still inhe.bits hecomes e.lmost e.n in closest connection and fellowship with thy- appende.ge of his Divine Persone.lity, e.nd self-a relation which baa been arrested or he might with awful significe.nce, when suspended since I have been "JeBUBChriat," referring to tho object of human faith o.nd e.nd glorifying thee amid the toil and sorrow knowledge, se.y, "Him whom thou hast of this earthly pilgrimage. This immediate sent-Jesus the Christ." Moreover, on e.ny glorification of the Son embraces the glory hypothesis of the composition or framing of of vicarious death, the triumphant resurrec- an interceeso1·y prayer for the Logos Christos tion, the mystery of e.scension in the strength to utter, there is an cque.l difficulty in the of his hume.n memories to the right hand insertion into such pr-J.yer by St. John of of God ( eh. xiii. 31, 32). He still further this reference to himself e.s the Christ. The defines this wondrous prospect, e.s with· the knowledge of the Fnther 11a the only true glory which I had with thee before the God, in opposition to the !Jee.then tmditions world was-before the being of the ,r&<r!L•• and philosophical specule.tions of the ,rapa. <r<a.VTr,i . . • ,rapa. <TO'- napa. i.n John world, coupled with a corresponding know- represents loce.l relationships (see eh. i. ledge of the only adeque.te expression of 40; iv. 40; xiv. 25; Rev. ii. 13) or intimate the Father's heart and nature, sent forth spiritue.l associations (eh. xiv. 28). So our from him, e.s One promised, consecmted, Lord remembers e.nd anticipe.tes a. "glory e.nd empowered to represent him, is life- with the Father." That which ho refers to eternal life. e.s before the existence of the world he.a Ver. 4.-He continues tho proyer which been softened down by Grotius, Wettstein, he is offering for himself: I glorifted thee Sohleierme.cher, e.nd some modems to mee.n on the earth, having finished I the work the glory of the Divine thought e.nd desti- nation concerning him ; but the expression 1 T,11.rn.l<rus is preferred by Tregelles, ,re&pd ,ro, is fe.r from being exhausted by such Tischendorf (8th edit.), Meyer, Westcott a rendering. He who wrote the prologue (eh. and Hort, and R.T., on the nuthority of i. 2, 18) meant that, e.s the Logos had been ~. A, B, C, L, e.nd I 33, 4S, with numerous other ourai ves e.nd quutntions, to fre}l.efr11<r<1 numerous quolations from Cyril, Basil, llnd of T.R., which rests on later unoillls and Athanasiw.. 344 THE GOSPEL AOOORDING TO BT. JOltN. [c;f. nu. 1-~