21. But remember that you shall suffer in a glorious cause; namely, on My account; for they will persecute you because you are My followers, and this because through culpable ignorance they will not recognise God as My Father, nor Me as the Son of God. 22. Si non venissem, et 22. If I had not come, and locutus fuissem eis, peccatum spoken to them, they would not non haberent: nunc autem have sin: but now they have no excusationem non habent de excuse for their sin. peccato suo. 23. Qui me odit et Patrem meum 23. He that hateth me, hateth odit. my Father also. 22, 23. That this ignorance is culpable, He now proves from the fact that He had Himself declared to them His relations with the Father. The sin (_peccatum_) is that of incredulity, and in remaining incredulous and hating Christ, they thereby showed that they hated the Father who sent Him. 24. Si opera non fecissem in 24. If I had not done among eis quae nemo alius fecit, them the works that no other peccatum non haberent: nunc man hath done, they would not autem et viderunt, et oderunt have sin: but now they have et me, et Patrum meum. both seen and hated both me and my Father. 24. Not only His words (verse 22), but also His unparalleled miracles deprived them of all excuse for their unbelief. See above on iii. 2. But now they have seen, or ought to have seen, the Father in Me (see above on xiv. 9); and they have seen Me, and they have hated Us both. 25. Sed ut adimpleatur sermo 25. But that the word may be qui in lege eorum scriptus fulfilled which is written in est: Quia odio habuerunt me their law: _They have hated me gratis. without cause_. 25. Yet, He continues, it is only what their own Scriptures (Ps. xxxiv. 19) foretold, that they would hate Him without cause. Thus this hatred of the world, so far from weakening the faith of the Apostles in Christ as the Messias, should confirm it, since the Messias was to be hated by the world. In this verse ἵνα has its usual _telic_ force, and the sense is: but this has come to pass _in order that_ the Scripture might be fulfilled. See above on xii. 37‐40. The passage of the Psalm referred to is probably Messianic in its literal sense. 26. Cum autem venerit 26. But when the Paraclete Paraclitus, quem ego mittam cometh, whom I will send you vobis a Patre, spiritum from the Father, the Spirit of veritatis, qui a Patre truth, who proceedeth from the procedit, ille testimonium Father, he shall give perhibebit de me: testimony of me. 27. Et vos testimonium 27. And you shall give perhibebitis, quia ab initio testimony, because you are mecum estis. with me from the beginning.