ἐγὼ ἐλήλυθα … It is just because I have come in the Father's name that you do not receive me. Not really loving God, they could not appreciate and accept Jesus who came in God's name, that is, who truly represented God. But ἐὰν ἄλλος ἔλθῃ … λήψεσθε, “if another come in his own name,” and therefore seeking only such glory as the Jews could give, him ye will receive; cf. Matthew 24:5; Matthew 24:23-24. “He did not say, ‘If I had come in my own name,' because the thing was so inconceivable.” Mason, Conditions of our Lord's Life, etc., p. 90. Possibly Jesus had here in view Antichrist (see Bousset's Antichrist, 133); but neither Bar Cochba nor any other definite Pseudo-Christ. Schudt mentions sixty-four.

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