Luke 10:21. In that hour. This definite mark of time joins this utterance of our Lord (Luke 10:21-22) with the return of the Seventy.

Joyed. A strong word, applied to our Lord only here. The one hour of joy was in sympathy with His faithful preachers.

In the Holy Spirit. This is the sense, according to the best authorities. The expression is indeed unusual. We have here a remarkable grouping of the Three Persons of the Trinity.

I thank thee, etc. See on Matthew 11:25-27, where the same expressions occur in a different connection. Our Lord probably uttered these weighty words on both occasions. In Matthew, moreover, they form a confession, here a ground of rejoicing in connection with the triumph of the ‘babes.' The language reminds us of the profound passages in the Gospel of John. The important truth respecting our Lord's relation to the Father, here set forth, underlies all the Gospels.

These things. In this connection all that is implied in the phrase: ‘that your names are written in heaven.'

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