Lay down his life. See on x. 11.
14. command (évré\Xopar). Of several words for com- mand in the New Testament, this one is always used of giving a specific injunction or precept. The kindred noun, évtonm, means an order, a charge, a precept, and hence is used of a separate precept of the law as distinguished from the law as a whole (véuo0s). See Matt. xxii. 36,38. It is, however, sometimes used of the whole body of the moral precepts of Christianity. See on xiii. 34. The sense of specific commands here falls in with the reading of the Rec. Text, dca, whatsoever, lit., as many things as.
15. Henceforth—not (ovxére). Rev., better, no longer. No longer servants, as you were under the dispensation of the law. Compare Gal. iv. 7.
Servants (SovAous). Strictly, bond-servants.
Knoweth not (ovx ofé). Has no instinctive perception. See on ii. 24.
You. The position of the pronoun in the Greek is em- phatic: “ You I have called friends.”
16. Ye—chosen. The pronoun is emphatic: “It was not ye that chose me.”
Ordained (é3xa). Rev., appointed is better, because it divests the word of its conventional meaning. Ordain is from the Latin ordinare, and means to set in order. Thus, Robert of Gloucester’s “ Chronicle:” ‘‘He began to ordain his folk,” @.€., set his people in order. Hakluyt, “ Voyages:” “He or- dained a boat made of one tree.” The Greek verb means to set, put, or place. Hence of appointing one to service. See 1 Tim. i. 12. Wyce., Matt. xxiv. 47: “Upon all his goods he shall ordain him.”
Should go (imdynte). Withdraw from His personal society and go out into the world.