Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. (32) If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. (33) Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. (34) A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. (35) By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another
Doth not the Reader feel a certain somewhat like relief in his mind, from this blessed and divine discourse of Jesus, after going over the awful subject of the traitor's character? No sooner was Judas gone out, than Jesus said, Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. Yes! when the traitor was departed, there remained none with Christ but his family, his children, his mystical body. In these the Lord was glorified, and they made everlastingly happy in him. Yea, all the persons of the Godhead were glorified in the same. And I pray the Reader not to overlook in this contemplation of Christ, and his Church, that the whole Church is to be considered in this. For the eleven Apostles were at that time the representatives of Christ's whole body the Church. And as such, when Judas was gone out, who represented the devil and his whole family, Jesus and his family were left alone, and hence Christ's glory. Reader! so will it be in that great day, when sin, and Satan, and all the seed of the serpent in the Judas of every generation, shall be gone out forever! How do the faithful now enjoy themselves in the Lord, when at times, two or three are met together in his name, and Jesus in the midst of them, and for a while they are uninterrupted by the ungodly? And what a glorious day of God will that be, when the Zion of God, as one of the Psalms blessedly sings of it, shall be brought home, and the rod of the wicked shall no longer fall, much less rest upon the lot of the righteous. As for such, saith that sweet Psalm, as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel. Psalms 125:1.