rejoice in the belief, that there is a judgment of God--a judgment for the whole universe. For it is then that he honours the Son even as he honours the Father. It is then that he confesses these testimonies in his own heart to be the echoes of the Voice which gave commandment to the sea, and fixed its bounds that it should not pass, and ordained laws for all the generations of men. It is then that the Will which governs him is felt to be the Will of a Father. He honours it, and bows to it, and delights in it, because he honours and bows to and delights in the will of the Son whom He hath sent. In the words which follow, our translators have exhibited an instance of the timidity which I have had occasion sometimes to notice before. '_Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life._' There can be no good reason why the word κρίσις should be rendered _judgment_ in the 22d verse, and _condemnation_ in the 24th. But from a fear, I suppose, lest the one should seem to contradict the other,--lest the Son should be thought not to execute the judgment that had been committed to Him,--they were unfaithful to the letter, perhaps even more unfaithful to the spirit, of the passage. To make the language fit their notion of the sense, they were forced to change the tense of '_come_,'--to make it '_shall not come_,' instead of '_doth not come_.' Those who cannot venture these outrages upon the text, must be content to accept the statement of it simply; that there is an eternal life in the Son of God,--that eternal life which was spoken of in the dialogue with the woman of Sychar; that those who hear His voice speaking to them in their hearts, and receive Him as the Witness and Manifestation of the eternal God, enter into that life; that they _do_ not come into judgment. The light does not scare them, but invites them. They fly to it as a deliverance, not from it lest it should consume them.