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Joh 16:10. Δικαιοσύνης, of righteousness) The world had accounted Jesus as most guilty [Comp. Joh 16:2-3].-ὅτι-ὑπάγω [‘because’], that-I go) as “the Righteous,” 1Jn 2:1, “If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous,” thereby obtaining access for believers. The departure of Christ to the Father was confirmed by the advent of the Paraclete.-καὶ οὐκ ἔτι θεωρεῖτέ με, and ye see Me no more) that is to say, and I come into that state, wherein ye no longer see Me. There is a change of person; i.e. I no more am seen: and yet it is not without reason that the language is framed in the second person; for if it were the privilege of any one to see Jesus, it would be that of the apostles; and yet it was the part even of these themselves (not to see, but) to believe, and to invite all to believe. Act 10:41; Luk 24:52; Rom 4:18-19, “Abraham-against hope believed in hope,” etc. Heb 11:1, “Faith is the evidence of things not seen;” Joh 16:27, “Moses endured as seeing Him, who is invisible;” ch. Joh 6:19; 1Pe 1:8, “Whom not having seen ye love, in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable,” etc., John 21 : 2Co 5:16, “Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more;” 21, “He hath made Him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him,” wherein we ought to weigh well the righteousness spoken of. On the other hand, so long as Christ could be beheld among men, righteousness was not yet obtained. Heb 9:26; Heb 9:28, “Now once-hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself;-to them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” 1Ti 3:16, note, “Manifest in the flash, justified in the Spirit.” [So long as He was manifest in the flesh among sinners, He was regarded as like themselves, and in fact did bear their sins; but afterwards by His death He abolished sin which was laid on Him, and claimed for Himself and for His people eternal righteousness, with the full approbation of the Father]-[Righteousness and glory are things conjoined. Rom 8:30, “Whom He justified, them He also glorified.”-V. g.] Previously to His death, He had been exposed to the eyes of mortals; not so also after His resurrection, except in so for as it was necessary that the witnesses of the resurrection should be confirmed; and even to these very persons He was not visible during the whole of that period, but only appeared at occasional times, much less was He visible to the world. And the sight of His glory, which accompanied His righteousness (“His justification in the Spirit”), would be intolerable to those living in the flesh.