John Bengel Commentary - John 16:13 - 16:13

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John Bengel Commentary - John 16:13 - 16:13


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Joh 16:13. Ὁδηγήσει, He shall guide) gradually, as you shall have need.-πᾶσαν) all, not merely that, which I tell you now as suited to your present capacity, Joh 16:7; or that truth concerning which the Paraclete shall reprove the world, Joh 16:8-9; 1Jn 2:20, “Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things;” 1Co 5:5, “In every thing ye are enriched by Him in all utterance and in all knowledge:” Joh 2:9, et seq., “Eye hath not seen, etc.; but God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep things of God.”-τὴν) The demonstrative article; all that truth which I was now “having to say to you.” The same phrase occurs in Mar 5:33, πᾶσαν τὴν ἀληθείαν, all the truth.-ἀληθείαν, truth) The Scripture is not wont to say in the Plural, ἀληθείαι, truths, ‘Truth’ is one, and a whole. The things whatsoever He shall hear and the things to come, are no doubt true things (but are not called truths in the Plural).-οὐ γὰρ λαλήσει ἀφʼ εἁυτοῦ, for He shall not speak of Himself) So also the Son speaks concerning Himself in ch. Joh 12:49, “I have not spoken of Myself, but the Father which sent Me, He gave Me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak.” Concerning hearing, comp. ch. Joh 8:40, “A man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God.”-τὰ ἐρχόμενα, the things to come) These also are true; otherwise they would not come. There were then coming the Saviour’s cross, death, life, and glory. The present, things coming, is used as of things about which the prophets had foretold: Act 3:21, “The times of the restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.” The marvellous works of the Holy Spirit were already then close at hand. The Apostles foretold many things even in their Epistles, but the Apocalypse written by John is what this especially refers to.-ἀναγγελεῖ, He will announce) This is the cause why Jesus, before His passion, predicted almost nothing of the things about to be, except the first and last of them, the overthrow of Jerusalem and the last judgment. The fountain of prophetical Theology is the revelation of the Holy Spirit. Ἀναγγελεῖ, He will announce, is thrice repeated, Joh 16:13-15.