7.
Our Lord, in His great Eucharistic address to the eternal Father, thus speaks:--'I have glorified Thee on the earth.

I have perfected the work which Thou gavest Me to do' (St.John xvii.

4).

Two things are stated: first, that the result of His Ministry had been the exhibition upon earth of the Father's 'glory[411]': next, that the work which the Father had given the Son to do[412] was at last finished[413].

And that this is what St.John actually wrote is certain: not only because it is found in all the copies, except twelve of suspicious character (headed by [Symbol: Aleph]ABCL); but because it is vouched for by the Peshitto[414] and the Latin, the Gothic and the Armenian versions[415]: besides a whole chorus of Fathers; viz.