distinctive office the glorifying of Jesus Christ. So fair is He, so
good, so radiant, that to make Him known _is_ to glorify Him. The
glorifying of Christ is the ultimate and adequate purpose of
everything that God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit has done,
because the glorifying of Christ is the glorifying of God, and the
blessing of the eyes that behold His glory.

'For He shall take of Mine, and show it unto you.' All which that
divine Spirit brings is Christ's. So, then, there is no new
revelation, only the interpretation of the revelation. The text is
given, and its last word was spoken, when 'the cloud received Him out
of their sight,' and henceforward all is commentary. The Spirit takes
of Christ's; applies the principles, unfolds the deep meaning of
words and deeds, and especially the meaning of the mystery of the
Cradle, and the tragedy of the Cross, and the mystery of the
Ascension, as declaring that Christ is the Son of God, the Sacrifice
for the world. Christ said, 'I am the Truth.' Therefore, when He
promises, 'He will guide you into all the truth,' we may fairly
conclude that 'the truth' into which the Spirit guides is the
personal Christ. It is the whole Christ, the whole truth, that we are
to receive from that divine Teacher; growing up day by day into the
capacity to grasp Christ more firmly, to understand Him better, and
by love and trust and obedience to make Him more entirely our own. We
are like the first settlers upon some great island-continent. There
is a little fringe of population round the coast, but away in the
interior are leagues of virgin forests and fertile plains stretching
to the horizon, and snow-capped summits piercing the clouds, on which
no foot has ever trod. 'He will guide you into all truth'; through
the length and breadth of the boundless land, the person and the work
of Jesus Christ our Lord.