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Some think the meaning is, Ye shall seek me to execute your malice upon me, but to no purpose, for you
shall not find me. Or, You shall seek me to destroy me in my church, and to root out my name; but to no purpose. But the most probable sense is this: You wicked Jews, that now contemn the means of grace by me offered to you, shall one day be in distress and calamity enough; and when you are so, then you will wish I were again amongst you; but I shall be ascended to my Father, and as deaf to your prayers as above the reach of your malice. There is much the same thing said in Mat_23:39. That he here speaketh of his ascension is plain from Joh_13:33. He speaketh of heaven as a place where he was at that time, for so he was as to his Divine nature. It is upagw, whither I go, which makes some think it should not here be eimi, but eimi, vado. But others reject it, because it is a poetical word, hardly used in the New Testament.