Excerpt from Love Revealed: Meditations on the Parting Words of Jesus With His Disciples in Chapter XIII., XIV., XV., XVI., XVII., Of the Gospel by John Shall we not see him sitting rapt and expectant, scarcely heeding the observations of his companions, mindful only of the seraphic sounds soon to burst on his ear? Nothing of all this. Having loved his own during the long years of their fellow- pilgrimage, he loved them unto the end. To them his thoughts were given. All his solicitude was for them. Every emotion of their hearts, every utterance of their lips, had for him the profoundest importance. They were "his own." The angels are not his own in any such sense, and therefore his thoughts were now given, not to the angels, but to his disciples. If we would but know it, the preference given by Christ to the impure children of earth, whom he yearned to purify, over the unfallen sons of God, was repeated hour by hour during the whole of his life; and the triumph of his love was in the perseverance with which he maintained unto the last this preference, notwithstanding the new and sad revelations of their unloveliness. "He loved his own." This was their testimony. On reviewing what had passed between him and them during those years of his ministry, they were enabled to see that all that he had said and done, without any exception whatever, was fitly expressive of a marvelous love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.