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Joh 7:34. [203] ΖΗΤΉΣΕΤΈ ΜΕ, ye shall seek Me) Me, whom ye now see, and despise. These words are a kind of text, on which the discourses of this and the following chapter are built as a superstructure; ch. Joh 8:21, “I go My way, and ye shall seek Me, and shall die in your sins; whither I go, ye cannot come,” etc. Such a text occurs also, ch. Joh 16:16, “A little while, and ye shall not see Me, and again a little while and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.”-καὶ οὐχ εὑρήσετε, and ye shall not find Me) Afterwards He speaks more sternly, “ye shall die in your sin,” ch. Joh 8:21.-ὅπου, whither) namely, to heaven: ch. Joh 3:13, “No man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man, which is in heaven.” The Lord sometimes put forth a discourse of such a nature, as that a meaning of it, in some degree, was, for the time being, apparent to His hearers: the deeper meaning became so subsequently. Comp. with this passage ch. Joh 13:33, “Yet a little while, I am with you. Ye shall seek Me; and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come, so now I say to you.” Such a discourse also occurs, ch. Joh 13:16, “The servant is not greater than his lord.” Comp. ch. Joh 15:20.
[203] μικρὸν χοόνον, a little time) It proved to be truly so; for hardly the half of a year elapsed from this discourse to the time of His passion.-Harm., p. 355.