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Joh_16:16. Soon, after a short separation, will this arrival of the Paraclete, and in it our spiritual reunion, take place. Comp. Joh_14:19.
κ . ὄψεσθέ με ] As in Joh_14:18-19, not to be referred to the resurrection (as Lange, Ebrard, Hengstenberg, Ewald, Weiss still maintain, in spite of Joh_16:23, comp. with Act_1:5-6), nor to the Parousia,[180] but to the spiritual vision of Christ in the ministry of the Paraclete, which they experience, and that without any double meaning. See on Joh_14:18.
Were ὅτι ὑπάγω πρὸς τ . πατ . genuine (but see the critical notes), it would assign the reason for the promise ὌΨΕΣΘΈ ΜΕ , since the seeing again here intended is conditioned by the departure to the Father (Joh_16:7).
[180] The πάλιν μικρόν , which decidedly opposes this interpretation, because it is entirely unrelated to the first μικρόν , leads Luthardt to the supposition that the return of Christ is here promised to the disciples in such a way, that they were to see in the transitory return of the risen one a pledge of the future Parousia. But of this Jesus certainly says nothing, either here or in what follows.