6—15.
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1. καὶ οὖκ ἔτι εἰμὶ ἐν τῷ κόσµῳ, καὶ οὗτοι ἐν τῷ κόσµῳ
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τα 14. ἐγὼ Thess. ii.
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t Rev. iii. 10; ἀπό common.
15. οὐκ
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ciples. In them it had been manifested that Christ was the messenger of God and had the words of eternal life.—Ver. 11. καὶ οὐκέτι εἰμὶ ἐν τῷ Kéopo. The circumstances necessitating the prayer are now stated. Jesus is no longer in the world, already He has bid farewell to it, but the disciples remain in it, exposed without His accustomed counsel and defence. πάτερ dye, “Holy Father”; this unique designation is suggested by the Divine attribute which would naturally assert itself in defending from the world’s corruptions those who were exposed to them. τήρησον αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ ὀνόματί σου ὢ δέδωκάς por, ‘ pre- serve them in [the knowledge of] Thy
name, which Thou gavest me”. @ is attracted into dative by ὀνόματι. This
was the fundamental petition. The retention of the knowledge which Christ had imparted to them of the Father would effect ἵνα dow ἕν καθὼς ἡμεῖς. Without harmony among themselves, so that they should exist as a manifest unity differentiated from the world, their witness would fail; xv. 8, 12. καθὼς ἡμεῖς is explained by xv. 9, 10.—Ver. 12. The protection now asked had been afforded by Christ so long as He was with the disciples. ὅτε ἥμην per αὐτῶν, ἐγὼ ἐτήρουν ... “when I was with them, I kept them in Thy name which Thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled”. On the detail of educative care spent on the disciples, and covered by ἐτήρουν, see Bernard,
Central Teaching, p. 370. 6 vids τῆς ἀπωλείας, cf. 2 Thess. ii. 3, in accord- ance with the usual Hebrew usage, the person identified with perdition, closely associated withit. Cf. Is. lvii. 4; xxxiii. 2; Mt. xxiii.15. Raphel quotes from Herod- otus, viii., ὕβριος vidv, with the remark, “nec Graecis plane ignotus est hic lo- quendi modus’. The Scripture referred to is Ps. xli. το, as in xiii. 18.—Ver. 13. As He Himself goes to the Father, He utters this petition aloud, and while yet with the disciples—ratra λαλῶ ἐν τῷ «éop@—that they might recognise that the power of God was engaged for their protection, and might thus have repeated and perfected in themselves the same joy with which Christ had overcome all the trials and fears of life. Cf. xv. 11, xvi. 24.—Ver. 14. ἐγὼ δέδωκα . . . κόσμον. Additional reason for soliciting in behalf of the disciples the protection of the Father consists in this, that the world hates them because they have received the revelation of God in Christ, and are thereby separated from the world as their Teacher was not of the world. Cf. ver. 6.—Ver. 15. The simplest escape from the anger of the world was removal from it, but for this He would not ask: οὐκ ἐρωτῶ ἵνα ἄρῃς αὐτοὺς ἐκ τοῦ κόσμον. They had a work to do which involved that they should bein the world. Italso involved the fulfilment of the petition, ἵνα τηρήσῃς αὐτοὺς ἐκ τοῦ πονηροῦ. Luther, Calvin, etc., take πονηροῦ as neuter; recent interpreters in general consider it to be masculine, ‘‘ from the evil one,” as in 1 John ii. 13, iv. 4, v. 18; cf. Με, vi.