How does He reassure their hearts? How does He restore their confidence and peace? Just by presenting Himself. It is not even by a clear announcement of the proofs of what He was; it is not by recalling to their minds that He had taught them divine truths. No; precious as this would have been from His lips, there was something yet more touching, more melting, more convincing, and that was— presenting Himself.
And now that He has come and gone away, and that we, His poor weak ones, are left in a world that disowns and rejects Him, what has He left us to cheer our hearts, to occupy our souls, to feed our hopes? Just "Himself."