572. Joh. ii, 19. Deftroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

575.

576.

See N° 58.

24, 25. Because he knew all men; And needed not that any fhould testify of Man; for he knew what was in Man.

See N° 362, 669.

Heaven.

iii, 13. But He that came down from

Nothing can be more unreasonable and groundlefs, than the Socinians Interpretation of this paffage: who feign that Chrift was taken up into Heaven, as Mofes of old into the Mount, to receive his InftruEtions; and then came down again to preach: Whereas the plain Meaning is, that he was in the Beginning with God, before he was made flesh and came into the World, ch. i, ver. 1, 10, 11, 14.

13. The Son of Man, which is in Heaven.

As before, ch. i, 18; which is in the Bofom of the Father. Though the Words are indeed ambiguous, [ô av en Tu sexv, which is (or was) in Heaven.] So ch. ix, 25, CTI Tupads wv, whereas I was blind. But the former Interpretation is more natural.

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13. No man hath afcended up to Heaven, but He that came down from Heaven, even the Son of Man which is in Heaven.

The Meaning is explained, ch. i, 18, No man hath

feen

feen God at any Time: The only-begotten Son, which is in the Bofom of the Father, he hath declared him.

577. Job.iii, 31. He that cometh from above, is

above All.

He that cometh from

579.

580.

All things into his hand.

V, 17. My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

13. But faid also that God was his Father, † making himself Equal with God. † Affuming to himself the Power and Authority of God. It is the fame Accufation with That Other, ch. x, 33, We ftone thee for Blafphemy, and because that Thon, being a Man, makeft thy felf God: And Mar. ii, 7, Why doth this Man thus fpeak Blafphemies? Who can forgive Sins, but God only? The Jews, 'tis evident, did not by thefe Expreffions mean to charge Jefus with affirming himfelf to be the Supreme, Self-exiftent, Independent Deity; nay, nor fo much as with taking upon himself to be a Divine Perfon at all; but only with affuming to himself the Power and Authority of God. And yet 'tis very reasonable to conceive, that Jefus in this place, by calling God his Father in fo abfolute and particular a manner, [wallog idov, his Own Father, did intend to hint to his Difciples, what they could not then, but were afterwards to understand, viz. that he was [A6 Jes] That Word which was in the Beginning [A6zQ

The Meaning of

with God, and was God, Joh. i, i
which Expreffion, fee in No 535 Tis probable
alfo, that he meant to give them fome Intimation of
the fame thing, in that Other place, Mar. ii; 5,7,
where he forgives Sins in fo abfolute a Manner: Up-
on which, Irenaus makes this Remark. Our Lord,
(fays he,) when he for-
gave Sins, at the Jame
time healed the Man, and
plainly declared who Him-
felf was: For if none can
forgive Sins, but God
only; and yet our Lord
did forgive Sins, and
heal Men; 'tis plain that

He was the Word of
God, made the Son of
Man, and receiving
from his Father the
Power of forgiving
Sins,because he was Man,
and because he was God.

hominem quidem curavit, Peccata igitur remittens, femet ipfum autem manifeftè nim nemo poteft remittere oftendit, quis effet. Si epeccata, nifi folus Deus; re

mittebat autem hæc Domi

nus, & curabat homines; manifeftum eft, quoniam iphominis factus, a Patre po fe erat Verbum Dei, filius teftatem remiffionis peccatorum accipiens, quoniam homo, & quoniam Deus. Lib. v, c. 17.

581. Job. v; 19. What things foever He [the Father] doth, thefe alfo doth the Son likewife.

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21, 22. For as the Father raiseth Sup the dead, and quickneth them; even so the Son quickneth whom he will..

ols For the Father judgeth no man, but hath -185 committed All Judgment unto the Son.

583. bi 26. For as the Father hath Life in Himfelf, fo hath he given to the Son to have Life in Himfelf.

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Job.

584. Joh. vi, 38. For I came down from Hea

See No 574.

day.

40. And I will raise him up at the last

The words are ambiguous; (iva — καὶ ἀνασί

IC ow autóv: And I will raife him up; Or, And that I fhould raife him up :) As in the fore-going Verfe.! See N° 58.

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586.

51. Which came down from Heaven.

E See N° 574.

587.

588.

day.

54. And I will raise him up at the last

See N° 58.

62. What and if ye fhall fee the Son

Xof Man afcend up where he was before?
See N° 574.

589. 64. For Jefus knew from the Beginning, who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

590.

591.

viii, 19. If ye had known Me, ye fhould

bave known my Father alfo.

See N° 555 & 600.

58. Before Abraham was, I am:

The Socinian Interpretation of This paffage, is

very languid and unnatural; that Chrift was before Abraham, in the Fore-knowledge and Appointment of God. The plain Meaning is, that he was really with God in the Beginning, and before the World was; ch. i, I; ở xvii, 5.

Many Expofitors, from our Saviours ufing in this paffage the Words, I am, instead of, I wass conclude that He here refers to his own peculiar manner of Existence. And indeed, that poffibly he might hereby intend to infinuate his Derivation of Being from the Father, to have been in a Singular manner, incomprehenfible and unrevealed; and that He was That perfon, in whom † the Name of God was, [viz. Jehovah, or, Iam;] This, + Compare Exod. I fay, cannot indeed be denied. But xxiii, 21, with As to fuppofe that he here defcribes vii; 30 32. See himself to be abfolutely [6] alfo N° 597, 359, The Self-exiftent Being; this is down-616, 916, 69. right Sabellianifm, and directly contrary to the whole Tenour of Scripture.

592. Joh. X; 14, 15. I

593.

and am known of mine:

know my Sheep,

As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I the Father.

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In the Greek, it is: Γινώσκω τὰ ἐμά, και γινώ σκομαι ὑπὸ ἢ ἐμῶν· καθώς γινώσκει με ὁ πατὴρ, δ καγώ γινώσκω τ πατέρα: I know my Sheep, and am known of mine; even as the Father knoweth Me, and I know the Father. There is a like Expreffion, 1 Cor. xiii, 12. Then shall I know, even as also I am known : And I Job. iii, 2, We fhall fee him as he is.

18. No man taketh it [my Life]from

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me,