The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 460

,1 we read that they were lnoredolous from appropriately used twice--for the Lord'e own the ei:oess of their joy, aod auroharged with commissfon, and aleo for the onmmisBion of wonder. In the bewilderment of their rap- the disciplee. Then it eeems to point bar,k ture he added to their asenrance and trans• to an event in their history and the work formed their joy into faith by p~blioly and done already and before Chrfat's death for before them all partloipating In food. E:1- the world. Now the disciples hflve a now lreme dejection ia transformed into trium• conception of Christ and of his work, 11,n,I phant oonviotion of the truth. A new they must go fortll to fulfil it. Thie aaa~c revelation had been made to them of the of a.Tro<TT<Mtd ie more or less conapicuot?9 in very nature of life, while the veil that had eh. i. 6; iii. 28; v. 33; i:viii. 24. n,µ.,rw from the beginning of time concealed the is U30d often to describe the Fathel"s m is!rion abode of the blessed dead, had at length of the Bon, the miseion of the Comforter, been rent io twain. 'fhey heard, they saw, an,l the mission of the disciples (eh. i:iii. they handled, the Word of life. They felt 20; i:iv. 26; xvi. 7). Moulton 9ays, "' A-rro- that in their Lord they too were now at rr-rl>..>..r4 mea.n9 •commission' and 7rfµ:rrw home in both worlds. Their fellowship was 'mission.' With the first word our thoughts with the Father and his Bon Jesus Obrist. turn to the '9Pecial embnssy ; ' with the Vere. 21-23.-(4) Peace, spiration of t/i~ secon,), to the authority of the 'ambassador' Holy Spirit, and conference of power to remit and the obedience of the sent." Another or retain sin. peculiarity of this passage is that the Lord Ver. 21.-Therefore [le11118 1] ■aid unto uses the perfect ten~e, d 1re<TTm>-1<e, rather than them again, Peace be unto you. With added the aorist used elsewhere, suggesting a. emphasis, and in obviollB reference to his complete commission on his own 11ide, whose valedictory discourse, he gave to them the meaning and effects are still in operation. essence of his own sublime repose, the Those who have received this revelation are blending of an infinite joy with a measure- to become at once witnesses to the fact of less sonow; the eqnilibrium that springs his resunection, agents and oTgans of his from the spirit mastering the flesh. Not an Spirit. Moulton euggeste that 1reµ.1rw is eoatatic rapture, nor a joy that would ma.ke need in order to enforce the physical separa- their life on earth insupportable by its con- tion between the Lord and his disciples; tm.<d with their abiding frame of mind; but and that we cannot overlook in the similarity peace-" the peace of God, which passeth of the ideas the differeIW0 in the manner oi UI1derstanding," The first "peace" gave the sending, by the Saviour of the disciples, to all who were assembled a new revelation ; from the manner in which the Son had been the second " peace," a summons to service. sent by the Father. Christ ea.me forth from The Lord added the memorable words, As the etema.1 companionship of the Father, in the Father bath sent me• ( a.1re<TTaJuce, bath the fact of his incarnation, ta.1."ing humanity sent me on a special commiBsion), I also send up into hill eternal substance. The disciples you (1reµ.1r"', charge you to go forth and were sent forth by the risen Lord, who accomplish this commission of mine); see had•ca.lled them by grace into fellowship Westcott's excursus on the New Testament with himself, and who equipped them for UBe.ge of the two verbs, which does much his service. The difference in these two to justify these shades of meaning. Both methods of sending is as conspicuow as the verbs a.re UBed of both the mission of the resemblance. Son and the mission of believers, but in the Vers. 22, 23.-And when he had said thill, two senses, (1) that sometimes the special he breathed upon them, and saith to them, service on which he or they a.re sent is Receive ye (the) Holy Spirit. The word emphasized by the UBe of a.,rotTTeMw; and ive4>l,f111<TEI' is not elsewhere UBed in the (2) that at other times the simple mission New Testament, but is used by the LXX. in or sending forth is the dominant idea. when Gen. ii. 7 to describo the essential distinction .,.,,....., is employed. Thus in eh. iv. 38 the between the living soul of Adam and the Lord says, "I sent ( ,i,r{u,,.eiJ..m) you to reap living soul of all other animals. Man's life that on which ye bestowed no labour;" an_d was no evolution of the life in other creatures, eh. i:vii 18 (see note) the ea.me word 1B or consequence of pre-existent properties in the dust of the groUI1d. A direct volition 1 tot, D, L, and numerollB versions omit 6 of the Almighty conferred upon humanity 'I11uoiis; so Tischendorf (8th edit.), Tregellee, the life of the flesh. So here the second Bll.le Revisers. T.R., R.T., and Lacbmann Adam, the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. xv. 45), retain it. Alford, Westcott and Hort, 11nd was represented as visibly and sensibly Tregellee put it in the ma.rgin. Wey- oonfening on those whom he now sends mouth brackets, with A, B, I, r, b., and forth to complete the mission of his grace numeroll8 cursives. t.he Divine lifewhioh would make them new 1 Bee notes, oh. i:vii. 18, where the word oreaturea, and bestow on t1i,m power to for "sent" is the sl\Dle in both olauBell, generate the same spirit in otherd, 'l'hey  THE GOSPEL AOOOBDING TO BT. JOHN. [cu. xx. 1-31.