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 had hitherto done, for he would have departed out of the limited finite. Yet in that gloriﬁed state he would be with them forever: "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."

The going out of Judas to betray meant the early consummation of the processes of glorification, when the human from Mary would be forever put away; for the merely external human, the material, would die upon the cross; and the Lord realized it perfectly. Therefore, as he had triumphed in the thought or anticipation of this final victory he exclaimed, "Now is the Son of man glorified,"—lifted up, exalted,—"and God is glorified in him,"——the Divine is brought down into the plane of the natural. The external limited was to be put off, and in its place the Divine, even as to ultimates,—or in the last things of human life,—was to be put on—God was to glorify the Son of man in Himself. They were to be made forever one. God was to dwell forever on the plane of the natural, as well as on higher planes. Jesus saw prophetically that which was about to occur. The process was almost finished. In a little time he would be able to say from the cross, "It is finished."