The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 338

pnttem of thl' FRther nTHI Son. Tho re!R.- Bwfnl Hehrrtistio phraRe is nscd by St. P:iul tirms botwoen Ohristirins, which constitute (2 These. ii. 3; cf. 2 8nm. xii. 5) for nnti• tho essentiRI unity of their oorporate being, ohrist, encl numerous phrases of tho kind nre of the snme kind ae those which porto.in show how a genitive following vlbs or -,;,cvov to Ohristand God, o.nd preTail between tl,em, expresses the full ch1ue.oteristio or the chief thorofore lyi11g far behind the shifting feature of certain persons (thus of. vfo, y,/. pho.ses of orgo.nizo.tion and humo.n order, 1111s, 'T<ICVll <porros, KaTtlpas, etc.). This victim in the essenco o.nd eubsto.nco of spiritual of perdition, this child of hell, hrui completed life. Somo writora ho.ve found in this his course; even now he h rie la.id hie plans a!lalogy between the union of believers o.nd for my destruction and his 0wn. He has so the hypostatio union of the Persons of perished in order that tbe Soripture might be the Gorlheo.d, either e. species of tritheism fo.llllled. Even i( the full telic force of Tvais in the Godhead, or e. minimizing of the preserved here, be does not free t.bo "son of entire conception to what is caller! moral perdition" from the responsibility of his own union between tho Fo.ther-God ancl hie destrnction. The Scripture portraiture of Son Jesus Obrist. But the effect of the Messiah has been reo.lized. Ps. xii. 9, which utterance is rather to lift the idea of the ho.a o.lrcarly been quoted by our Lord in oh. unity of the body of Ohrist to e. superlo.tive xiii. 18, is probably still in his mhd ( cf. also height, and to interpret still further the lsEL. lvii.12, 13). Some commentators-Arch- nature of its oneness with the Father o.nd deacon Watkins, Dean Alford-press the Son (see ver. 23). fa.et that the "eon of perdition" must have Ver. 12.-While Iwo.s with them (in tbe been among those who were given to C,'hriat world 1). He speaks of the earthly ministry by the Father, who were watched, guarded, es completed, e.nd reviews the whole of hie taught by God; but that Juda..~ nevertheless influence over them. I kept them in thy took bis own we.y ELnd went to his own Ne.me whioh thou he.et given me. The very place. Thoma. comp11res the lost disciple process tho.t I can no longer pursue, e.nd the with the lost sheep of the eynoptiste, as cessation of which becomes the ground of though we ho.d e. reference to a. true repro- the plea for the Father's -r71p-,f1m. Thie an bate, e. son of Belia.I, Apollyon, a.nd the earthly fe.ther might say, without irreverence, like. Moulton justly protests against a.ny of children whom he wo.e about to leave, but countenance being found here for the irrevo- the quality of the keeping is oho.raotcrized cable decree. But if the interpretation of by the Divine N11me which was given him, the ,1 ,.¾ given above is sound, there is no nnd that manifested the Sonship which inclusion of the traitor among those who are carried with it all the revelation of the "of the truth," etc.; but he WW! one who, not- Father.• And I guarded (them)-fr~pwv withstanding bonndless opportunity, went to signifies we.tohful obeervntion; l<p611.a{a, his own place in the perversity of his own will. guardianship e.e behind the walls of a Ver. 13.-llut now oome I to thee. So fortress-and not one perished-went to de- that the condition, the shielding protection 11truction-exoept that the son of perdition of my love is removed, thou, 0 my Father, (ho.a perished). Christ does not say tbe.t the must be their Sun ELnd Shield. And these son of perdition was given him by the things I am uttering in the world; uttering, Father e.ud guarded from the evil one, e.ud i.e. in their bee.ring before my l><st step is yet had gone to hie own place; the excep- taken, and perhLLps in the very midst of the tion refers simply to the "not one perished." machinations which are going on against Ei I'¾ has occe.eiono.lly a meo.ning not exactly me. That .they might have the joy that is equal to d11.1,a, but expresses e.n exception mine fulfilled, fully unfolded and completed. which does not cover the whole of the ideas in I themselves. By overhearing the high- involved in the previous clause (see Matt. xii. priestly prayer, they would be ELssured of the 4; Luke iv. 26, 27; Ge.I. i. 19, eto.). This Divine guardiELnship, e.nd wouhl receive the transfer of even bis joy as well as of his 1 The cle.use, b -r,ii K&u,..,, of T.R. is want• peace. They would finrl the higher joy also ing in t(, D, O, D, L, cmd is rejected by Lach- of the return of their Lord to the bosom of me.nn, 'fischendorf (8th edit.), R.T., and the Fe.ther. Christ has taught his disciples Westcott o.nd H.ort. to desire such joy and peace as he found on • The reo.rling of ,; instead of oh is not the night of the Passion. so strongly supported in this ple.ce. O~s is Ver. 14.-I ho.ve given them thy word re!ld by A, 0', D, X, Y, and other uncials, (3,3wKa, a permBllent endowment); and the by Vulgate, Gothic, Sy:riao, e.nrl by Le.ch- 1 Tregelles, Tischeuclorf (8th edit.), West- mann : nnd :iot only Godet, but Meyer and Lrrnge hore prefer oik 'l'ibchenrlorf (8th cott and Hort, and R.T., with ~. A, ll, X, cclit.), Westcott nnd Hort, RT., and 'fre- n, read Jv fov-roi's; while T.R. e.nd Lach- go!los not only ndopt the change of ots, T.R., mann read ,v 11/rr ,,s, with c• 1 D, and Olht:t illto ~' but read ~• 6,o.,Kds 1,1.0,, 1<al ,<110Aa!11. e.uthoriUe.11.  348 THE GOSrEL AOOORDJNG TO B'l JOHN. [en. xvn. 1-28,