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Joh_13:31-32. Νῦν ἐδοξάσθη , κ . τ . λ .] The traitor is gone, and thereupon the heart of the Lord, which has become freer and more at ease, outflows first as in an anticipation of triumph. In view, namely, of the near and certain end, He sees in His death, as though He had already undergone it, His life-work as accomplished, and Himself thereby glorified, and in this His glorification the glory of God, who completes His work in the work of the Son. The δόξα intended by Jesus is accordingly not that which is contained for Him in the feet-washing and in the departure of Judas, which would not correspond to the sublime and victorious nature of this moment (against Godet). But neither, again, is it the heavenly glory (Luthardt); for to this the future δοξάσει , Joh_13:32, first refers, and this change of tense possesses a determinative force. Rather does the ἐδοξάσθη denote the actual δόξα , which lies in the fact, and of which the manifestation has begun, that now at length His earthly work of salvation is brought to a state of completion, the task appointed to the Son by the Father is discharged. It is the glory of His death, the splendour of His τετέλεσται , which He contemplates, feels, declares as already begun.
ἐν αὐτῷ ] in Him, in His person, so far as it has been glorified.
Joh_13:32 has a climactic relation to Joh_13:31, passing from the δόξα , which He has on the threshold of death, to the heavenly glory, which from this time God will secure to Him (hence the future δοξάσει ).
εἰ ὁ θεὸς ἐδοξ . ἐν ἑαυτῷ ] Solemn repetition, in order to subjoin a further thought.
ἐν ἑαυτῷ ] To be referred to the subject, not, with Ewald, to Christ: in Himself, corresponding, as recompense, to the ἐν αὐτῷ . He will be so glorified by God, that His heavenly glory will be contained in God’s own peculiar δόξα ; His glory will be none other than the divine glory itself, completed in God Himself (comp. Col_3:3) through the return into the fellowship of God out of which He had come forth, and had been made man. Comp. Joh_17:4-5.
The first καί , Joh_13:32, is the also of the corresponding relation (on the other hand, again); and the second: and that (Hartung, Partikell. I. p. 145). On the idea of the recompense, comp. Joh_17:4-5; Php_2:9.
εὐθύς ] straightway; for how immediately near is this blessed goal towards which my death is the departure!