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Joh_14:20-21. At that day;[153] in the historical fulfilment this was the day of Pentecost. Not: at that time (De Wette), or, as Hengstenberg twists it: in the period of time, beginning with the day of the resurrection (comp. Weiss); for a definite fact, marked off in point of time, is treated of, and this is the advent of Christ in the Paraclete. Comp. Joh_16:23.
γνώσεσθε , κ . τ . λ .] This dynamic immanence of Christ in the Father (see on Joh_10:38), which exists even in His state of exaltation (Col_3:3), like the analogous reciprocal relation between Him and the disciples, according to which they live and move in Him and He in them (Gal_2:20), was to become for them a matter of experimental acquaintance through the Spirit.
Joh_14:21. General moral condition of this promised ΓΝΏΣΕΣΘΕ . Comp. Joh_14:15.
Ὁ ἜΧΩΝ , Κ . Τ . Λ .] Augustine: “qui habet in memoria et servat in vita.” The ἜΧΕΙΝ , however, is rather the internal possession of the commandments, obtained by faith, the appropriated living presence of them in the believing consciousness, as the consequence of the ἀκούειν . Comp. Joh_5:38.
ἘΚΕῖΝΌς ἘΣΤΙΝ ] with great and exclusive emphasis.
In ἈΓΑΠΗΘΉΣ . and ἈΓΑΠΉΣΩ lies the peculiar mutual love.
ΚΑῚ ἘΓῺ ἈΓΑΠ .] Ὡς ἈΜΦΟΤΈΡΩΝ ΤᾺ ΑὐΤᾺ ΘΕΛΌΝΤΩΝ Κ . ἈΠΟΔΕΧΟΜΈΝΩΝ , Euth. Zigabenus.
ἘΜΦΑΝΊΣΩ ΑὐΤῷ ἘΜΑΥΤΌΝ ] corresponds to the ΓΝΏΣΕΣΘΕ , which was to commence through this very causing of Himself to appear in virtue of the communication of the Spirit. On ἐμφαν ., comp. Exo_33:13; Exo_33:18; Sap. Joh_1:2; Mat_27:53. The expression is such, that it sets forth the relation of the self-demonstration of the Lord to His individual loving ones, not His manifestation at the Parousia, which certainly will be glorious and universal (in answer to Luthardt). Those who explain it of the resurrection of Christ understand the appearances of the Risen One to be referred to, 1 Corinthians 15 (Grotius, Hilgenfeld, and many others).
[153] Luthardt, according to his view of the entire passage, must understand the day of the Parousia, whereby he assigns to γνώσεσθε the moment of the completed knowledge.