30. Jesus declares that the voice from heaven was the Father’s testimony to Him, given for their sakes, in order that they might believe in Him. 31. Nunc iudicium est mundi: 31. Now is the judgment of the nunc princeps huius mundi world: now shall the prince of eiicietur foras. this world be cast out. 31. *Now is the judgment of the world.* There is a difference of opinion as to what judgment is here spoken of; whether the judgment of liberation of the world in general, or the judgment of condemnation of the _wicked_ world. In favour of the former, it is argued—(_a_) that since Satan was to be cast out, or deprived of his dominion over the world, therefore the world was to be liberated; (_b_) that verse 32 declares the effect of this judgment: the world shall be liberated, and as a consequence I shall draw all things to Myself; (_c_) that the world to be judged is that over which Satan had ruled, and from which he was now to be cast out. But before the Incarnation he had held sway over the whole world (Rom. iii. 23, xi. 32; Gal. iii. 22). Therefore, it is the whole world that is to be judged, and hence there must be question of the judgment of liberation. So St. Aug., Mald., A Lap., Tolet., Beel., Patriz. In favour of the latter view, which is held by St. Chrysostom and most of the Greek fathers, it is argued—(_a_) that St. John always uses κρίσις of the judgment of condemnation; (_b_) that the world in the beginning of the verse is the same whose prince is to be deprived of his dominion; that, therefore, it should stand or fall with its prince; hence since he is to be stripped of his dominion, it is to be condemned; (_c_) that in the discourse after the Last Supper, Christ always means by the world, the _wicked_ world, opposed to Himself (John xiv. 17, 22, 30; xv. 18, 19; xviii. 9, 16, 25); therefore, also here, and hence there must be question of the judgment of condemnation. *The prince of this world* is plainly the devil. See also 2 Cor. iv. 4; Eph. ii. 2, vi. 12. In the Talmud the same title is given to the prince of devils. By Christ’s death the devil was cast out: that is, deprived of that almost universal sway which he had exercised over men before the coming of Christ. “At nondum diabolus e mundo ejectus videtur esse, cum in eo adhuc grassetur. Ejectus foras dicitur non quod nunc in mundo non sit, et in multis etiamnum dominetur; sed quod, quantum in Christo fuit, ejectus fuerit, ita ut, si homines vellent, nihil prorsus in ipsos haberet potestatis. Homines illi postea portam arcis aperuerunt, et proditione quadam in suam quisque domum admittit. Itaque etiam nunc regnat et operatur, sed in filios diffidentiae, Eph. ii. 2” (Mald. on this verse). 32. Et ego si exaltatus fuero 32. And I, if I be lifted up a terra, omnia traham ad from the earth, will draw all meipsum: things to myself.