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Joh_16:7. Nevertheless, how should you raise yourselves above this λύπη ! How is my departure your own gain! By its means the Paraclete indeed will be imparted to you as a support against the hatred of the world.
ἐγώ ] in the consciousness of this personal guarantee.
ἵνα ἐγὼ ἀπέλθω ] ἐγώ in contradistinction to the Paraclete, who is to come in His place (Joh_14:16); ἵνα expresses the δεῖ as divinum, as in Joh_11:50. On the dependence of the mission of the Paraclete upon the departure of Jesus, see on Joh_7:39.