28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.



Ver. 28. My Father is greater than I] To wit, as I have voluntarily submitted myself to the office of a mediator. Lo, here this Sun of righteousness is gone back ten degrees in the dial below his Father. "Thou hast made him little less than the angels," Psa_8:5; there (as man) he is gone back ten degrees below the angels. "I am a worm and no man," Psa_22:6; there he is gone back ten degrees below men. "A living dog is better than a dead lion," Ecc_9:4; there he is gone back ten degrees below worms. For he was not so much as a living worm, but was laid in the grave as a dead lion, there to have been meat for worms, but that it was impossible for God’s Holy One to see corruption. See how he emptied and humbled himself, åêåíùóåí , that he might exalt and fill us with his fulness, éêáíùóåí .