The Fountain of Life Opened

JOH. XIX.XXX. When Jesus therefore had received the Vinegar he said [it is Finished,] and bowed his head, and gave up the Ghost.

JOH. XIX.XXX. When Iesus therefore had received the Vinegar he said [it is Finished,] and bowed his head, and gave up the Ghost.

IT is finished, This is the sixth remarkable word of our Lord Jesus Christ upon the Cross, uttered as a Triumphant shout when he saw the glorious issue of all his sufferings now at hand.¹

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] Cypr. Sect. 568.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Cypr. Sect. 568.

It is but one word in the original, but in that one word is contained the sum of all Joy. The very spirits of all divine consolation. The ancient Greeks reckoned it their excellency to speak much in a little. To give a Sea of matter, in a drop of language. What they only sought, is here found. I find some variety (and indeed variety, rather than contrariety) among expositors about the relation of these words.¹ Some are of opinion that the antecedent is the legal ⟨p. 478⟩Types and Ceremonies. And so make this to be the meaning. It is finished: that is, all the Types and Prefigurations that shadowed forth the Redemption of souls by the blood of Christ, are now fulfilled and accomplished. And doubtless as this is in it self a truth, so it's such a truth as may not be excluded, as alien to the true scope and sense of this place.