And come again] i.e. in the coming of the Spirit.

For my Father is greater than I] 'Rejoice that I go to My Father, for it is good both for Me and for you. He will exalt Me to supreme authority over the universe, enable Me to dispense the Holy Spirit, and cause My work to prosper in your hands.' When Christ said 'My Father is greater than I,' He was probably thinking of the humiliation of His earthly life, and of His created human nature ('equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior to the Father as touching His manhood'); yet there is a sense in which even the eternal Son, as being begotten, is inferior to the Father.

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