Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... The character of complete revelator ascribed here to Jesus is explained by His intimate and personal relation with God Himself, such as is described in the following words: who is in the bosom of the Father. The participle 6 uv, who is, is connected in a very close logical relation with the following verb: He has revealed. As Baumlein says, it is equivalent to on iv, inasmuch as He is; thereupon rests His competency to reveal.--The figure which John employs might be derived from the position of two. nearest guests at a banquet (xiii. 23); but it seems rather to be borrowed from the position of a son seated on his father's knees and resting on his bosom. It is the emblem of a complete opening of the heart; he who occupies this place in relation to God must know the most secret thoughts of the Father and His inmost will. The word Koy-os, bosom, would by itself prove that the mystery of the Son's existence is a matter, not of metaphysics, but of love, comp. xvii. 24: "Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world." The omission of the words 6 uv in K is a negligence condemned by all the other MSS. Must we, with Hofmann, Luthardt and Weiss. refer the words: "who is in the bosom of the Father" to the present glorified condition of Jesus? But the heavenly state which Jesus now enjoys cannot explain how He was able to reveal the Father perfectly while He was on the earth. We must then, in that case, refer the revealing act of Jesus to the sending of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, which is implied by nothing in the text. Or is John thinking especially of the divine condition of the Logos before His coming to the earth? But that would be to say, that the knowledge of God which Jesus communicated to men was drawn from the..."
