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Joh 16:8. Ἐκεῖνος ἐλέγξει, He will reprove or convict) through your preaching, and through works of conversions and healings: which reproof the world will partly submit itself to, partly resist, but its resistance will be but “a kicking against the pricks.” Appropriately after the verb μαρτυρήσει, He shall testify, ch. Joh 15:26, is put the verb ἐλέγξει, He shall reprove, here. Ammonius says, μάρτυς is taken in a good sense, ἔλεγχος in a bad sense. Christ is good, the world is bad.-τὸν κόσμον, the world) which is hostile to you, the whole of it universally, including those who are accounted the most holy and most powerful in the world, and who do not believe in Me: the Jews and the perverse Gentiles.-περὶ, concerning) Three remarkable heads are mentioned, concerning sin, concerning righteousness, concerning judgment. Righteousness is opposed to sin: righteousness belongs to Christ: Satan is condemned in judgment. He who is “convicted concerning sin,” subsequently either passes over to the righteousness of Christ, or has his share in judgment (condemnation) with Satan. The fulfilment of this passage is to be found in the Acts of the Apostles. See there an example of the Holy Spirit’s ‘reproving,’ concerning the sin of unbelief, ch. Act 3:13-14, Peter in Solomon’s porch, “Ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you:” concerning righteousness, ch. Act 13:39, Paul at Antioch, “By Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law,” which comp. with what goes before; concerning judgment, ch. Act 26:18, “To open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God,” etc.