The Internal Evidence of the Fourth Gospel
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the Father butby Me". And as we reverently proceed further in the prayer we find Him saying : "And now, 0 Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was." These words are natural to the Father's Son as we know and worship Him, but they are beyond the reach of an unin spired man, and who can imagine a forger inspired of the Holy Ghost? Such words would, however, be graven upon the very heart of an ear-witness such as the disciple whom Jesus loved. We have in this prayer also the fuller revelation of the "one flock" and "one Shepherd" pictured in chapter ten: "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word ; that they all may be one ; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also ma,y be one in us: That the world may believe that Thoue. hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfectoo into one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them., as Tho1t hast loved Me." In these holy words there breathes a cry for such a unit.1 as never entered into the heart of mortal man to dream of. It is no cold and formal ecclesiastical unity, such as that suggested by the curious and unhappy mistranslation of "one fold" for "one flock" in St. John 10: 16. It is the living unity of the living flock with the living Shepherd of the living God. It is actually the same as the unity subsisting between the Father and the Son. And according to St. Paul in Rom. 8 : 19, the creation is waiting for its revelation. The one Shepherd has from the beginning had His one flock in answer to His prayer, but the world has not yet seen it, and is therefore still unconvinced that our Jesus is indeed the Sent of God. The world has seen the Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Church, but the Holy Catholic Church
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