The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 341

form one living glorioua nnity ;-every part of their own epiritunl felloWBhlp with one of which epir1tne.l organism, while living 11, e.nothor, will this personal oonsciou•ncse o! ecpnmte 11,nd differeutilltod life, is yet 11, pnrt theirs become more e.nd more pronouncetl. of a. whole. In the na.tui-&l apl,ere, RB the There is yet a further process oontemplo.tcd parts of a whole organism are more 11nd viz. in order that the world may believ~ more <lcn,Jopcd, o.nd increasingly resemble ( 1r,.,..,..,1p, as in the next verso ; ')'IV~<Tkp, in indi\'idun.litieB in their eepe.mtion, they a.re tbe preacnt eubjunctivo, rather than tllll in the Mme proportion dependent on the aorist) that thou did ■t send me. The wbole for the life the.t is in tliem. Even in e. epiritue.l life and unity of the Chu1oh will highly organized community,OB the separate produoe an imprcesion on the world whkh indivi<lue.ls have more e.nd more persone.l now rejects the Clirist e.ud docs not appro consciousness of speaial function, they be- ciato hie Divine oommission. The uuion come the more dependent on the whole, e.nd which springs fi·on, the blended life of tlie in one sense lost in the unity to which they vo.riou1, anci even contradictory elements in belong. The branches in the vine form the Church will prove the reality of it11 together one vine; the members of a body, origin. The world will believe,-this is the being many, are one body and menmera of fine.I purpose of the intercession concerning one another. It is open t.o discussion the disciples; so though a.hove he did not whether the ka.9~s claUBe, which here pray for the, world es the then immeiliate follows, charncterizes the e.bove statement, object of his intercession, the poor wodd is as Meyer and me.ny others urge, or whether, in his heart, e.nd the saving of the world with Godet, the sentence, "'l'he.t they nll the end of his incaruo.tion. If the union may be one," should not be taken e.s a between the Father e.nd the Son is the general statement, to be followed by the sublime type _of t~e _union between thee~ ,ca./Jws clnuse, which cha.re.cterizcs the follow- who shall believe, it is not the union of a ing words. The first method is a more great society in e.ccorclance wilh certain mtional interpretation, nor does the sen- invincible rules of affiliation e.nd gorem- tence dro.g. Aocording as thou, Father, (a.rt) ment. The union between the Fa.tiler anil in me, and I (am) in thee; i.e. the relation Son is not a visible manifestation, but a between the Father and Son, the manner in spiritual inference. The common indwell- which the Father lives in the Son, as in his ing in the Father e.nd Son, the identity of org:in or instrument of manifestation e.nd the spiritual emotion e.ud purpose in c 11 who object of supreme affection, and as the Son have c,ne Lord, one faith, one baptism, will is in the Father, abiding ever in the light convince the world by producing II simila~ of his glory,~ the power of his Ne.me, and inference. .Alford: "This µnity ill not mere as these two a.re thus One in beiug, so, or outward uniformity, nor can such uniformity similurly, the believers are to live in and produce it. At the same time, its effects for ee.ch other, becoming a w1ity, just as the are to be reo.l and visible, such that tlie Father and Son are unity. In order that world may see them." they themselves also may be [one'] in us. Ver. 22.-Our Lord now pror.ecds to record 'fhis 7va. does not offer a paro.Ilel sentence how he has already contributed to produce in apposition with the former, nor is the this result. I also-very empho.tic-have "that" t.o be inverted, with Godtt, who given to them-that is, to my disciples-the translates, " that according 11B thou ... they glory which thou gavest me. Numerous a.Lio may be one in us;" but it is the climax in terpreto.tions of this " glory " have been of the whole uuifying process, after the suggested, as e.g. the glory into which be.is likeness of the unton between the Father a.bout to enter in his glorified body; but the and the Son, viz. that they them.selves may emphatic perfect li,li"'""' in connection with be included in this unity. Though they the ,li,.,,,d.s, viz. : "I have given e.nd am now are thus to be lost in God, yet they do not and still giving," renders this improbable. lose their own h::!.inuw,.uty. Nay, in pro- Meyer, who does not e.ocept Daumge.rten• porti'lll to their organic relation to the ful- Crusius's view that li,ad11,11 here meo.us " to r.llllll of tLe Godhead and the completeness destine," yet comes very much to the SELllie thought, and regards it e.s the heavenly 1 The tv is omitted by Tischendorf (8th glory of which he had etern11l experience, ad.it.), e.nd by Meyer, Weet.cott and Hort, on and would ultiwately she.re with his people. e.nthority which does not convince Lach- But the view variowily set forth by Olshau- mann or Godet, who regard it e.s essential sen, Hengstcnbcrg, Mo.ldone.tus, Dengel, to the mee.nin'-", For the omission, B, C*, 0 Tholuck, Moulton, and Godet appears D, a, b, c, and nnmeroUB quotations; while to be in full harmony with the context, ii, is founu in l't, A, c•, e.nd uumerous other viz. the glory of the supcrn11turnl life of uncia!B and oursi ves. Westcott regards the Divine Sonship e.nd self-sacrificiug love idea of unity more thoroughly con.finned by as of the very eSBence of God. This lbe omis•ion thau by the pre11t:nce of the ;,,, glory that ho should tn.ste Jca.th for every en. xvn. 1-26.) 'l'UE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOUN. 351