The Saviour's Parting Prayer for His Disciples
by William Landels (9780217370011)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FINISHED WORK AND ITS REWARD, " I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was."? John xvn. 4, 5. IN the second verse the Saviour prays that the Father may glorify Him, in order that He may also glorify the Father; and here He speaks as if this purpose in relation to the Father were already realised, and His work on earth done?as if He had already glorified the Father, and it only remained that the Father, in return, and as the reward of His work, should glorify Him. The apparent discrepancy is, however, easily explained. The prayer itself shows in what sense the words before us are to be understood. Their explanation is found in the state of the Saviour's own mind. He is not looking back merely on what has actually been done, but forwardto that which is about to be accomplished, of which what had already taken place was the infallible pledge, and speaking of it by anticipation. Whether it be from His Divine prescience, or because " the spirit of prayer so elevates Him " that He " describes the work upon earth as if He was already lifted up from the earth and looking back upon it from heaven," it is certain that both here and in v. n, He speaks of that which is about to be as if it already were. Although still here, He says in that verse, "And now I am no more in the world: " and although some of His work yet remains to be done, in the words before us He says, in the same spirit of anticipation, " I have glorified Thee on earth; I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do." The glory of God, the Scriptures give us to understand, consists less of His natural than of His moral attributes. When, in answe...

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