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Joh 3:36. Ἔχει, hath) The present, the future being included. See on ch. Joh 5:24, “He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”-οὐκ ὄψεται, shall not see) Future, in which the present is included.-ὀργή, wrath) For he has no experimental sense of the love with which the Father loves the Son, and those alone who believe in the Son.-μένει) Others read μενεῖ [Fut. So the old Lat. [60]; Memph[61] and Syr[62] Versions: but [63][64][65][66][67][68] support μένει[69]]; but see Joh 3:18, “He that believeth on Him, is not condemned; but he that believeth not, is condemned already,” etc., ἤδη κέκριται, is already judged; the wrath of God abideth on him: there is no need that it should at last come [on him].
[60] Veronensis, do.
[61] emph. the Memphitic, or Coptic Version from Egypt: third cent.: publ. by Wilkins at Oxford, 1716.
[62] yr. the Peschito Syriac Version: second cent.: publ. and corrected by Cureton, from MS. of fifth cent.
[63] the Alexandrine MS.: in Brit. Museum: fifth century: publ. by Woide, 1786-1819: O. and N. Test. defective.
[64] the Vatican MS., 1209: in Vat. Iibr., Rome: fourth cent.: O. and N. Test. def.
[65] Bezæ, or Cantabrig.: Univ. libr., Cambridge: fifth cent.: publ. by Kipling, 1793: Gospels, Acts, and some Epp. def.
[66] Vercellensis of the old ‘Itala,’ or Latin Version before Jerome’s, probably made in Africa, in the second century: the Gospels.
[67] Colbertinus, do.
[68] Cantabrigiensis, do.: the Gospels, Acts , , 3 d Ep. John.
[69] Which reading, in the margin of the Larger Ed. being marked with the sign γ, afterwards more decidedly, in Ed. 2, was reckoned among the readings less to be relied on; in which the Obs. Gnomon and Vers. Germ. agree.-E. B.