And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
And I [ kagoo (G2504 )], if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. The "I" here is emphatic: I, in contrast with the world's ejected prince. "If lifted up," means not only after that I have been lifted up, but, through the virtue of that Uplifting. And does not the death of the Cross in all its significance, revealed in the light, and borne in upon the heart by the power, of the Holy Spirit, possess an attraction over the wide world-to civilized and savage, learned and illiterate alike-which breaks down all opposition, assimilates all to itself, and forms out of the most heterogeneous and discordant materials a kingdom of surpassing glory, whose uniting principle is adoring subjection "to Him that loved them"? - "Will draw all men 'UNTO ME,'" says He х pros (G4314) emauton (G1683)], or 'to Myself,' as it might more properly be rendered. What lips could presume to utter such a word but His, which "dropt as an honeycomb," whose manner of speaking was evermore in the same spirit of conscious equality with the Father?