Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
Ver. 28. My Father is greater than I] To wit, as I have voluntarily submitted myself to the office of a mediator. Lo, here this Sun of righteousness is gone back ten degrees in the dial below his Father. "Thou hast made him little less than the angels," Psalms 8:5; there (as man) he is gone back ten degrees below the angels. "I am a worm and no man," Psalms 22:6; there he is gone back ten degrees below men. "A living dog is better than a dead lion," Ecclesiastes 9:4; there he is gone back ten degrees below worms. For he was not so much as a living worm, but was laid in the grave as a dead lion, there to have been meat for worms, but that it was impossible for God's Holy One to see corruption. See how he emptied and humbled himself, εκενωσεν, that he might exalt and fill us with his fulness, ικανωσεν .