{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/joh017.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/joh017.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/joh017.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nThese words (\u03c4\u03b1\u1fe6\u03c4\u03b1)\nLiterally, these things. So Rev.\nSaid\nJohn nowhere says that Jesus prayed, as the other Evangelists do.\nThy Son - thy Son (\u03c3\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03c5\u1f31\u1f78\u03bd - \u1f41 \u03c5\u1f31\u03cc\u03c2)\nProperly, thy Son - the Son. The second phrase marks a change from the thought of personal relationship to that of the relation in which Jesus manifests the Father's glory.\nPower (\u1f10\u03be\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03bd)\nRev., rightly, authority. See on Joh 1:12.\nAll flesh\nA Hebrew phrase, denoting the whole of humanity in its imperfection. See Gen 6:12; Psa 65:2; Isa 40:5, etc.\nThat He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him (\u1f35\u03bd\u03b1 \u03c0\u1fb6\u03bd \u1f43 \u03b4\u03ad\u03b4\u03c9\u03ba\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff7, \u03b4\u03ce\u03c3\u1fc3 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2 \u03b6\u03c9\u1f74\u03bd \u03b1\u1f30\u03ce\u03bd\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd)\nLiterally, that all that Thou hast given Him, to them He should give eternal life. All (\u03c0\u1fb6\u03bd), singular number, regards the body of Christian disciples collectively: to them, individually.\nLife eternal\nWith the article: the life eternal. Defining the words in the previous verse. The life eternal (of which I spoke) is this.\nThat (\u1f35\u03bd\u03b1)\nExpressing the aim.\nMight know (\u03b3\u03b9\u03bd\u03ce\u03c3\u03ba\u03c9\u03c3\u03b9)\nMight recognize or perceive. This is striking, that eternal life consists in knowledge, or rather the pursuit of knowledge, since the present tense marks a continuance, a progressive perception of God in Christ. That they might learn to know. Compare Joh 17:23; Joh 10:38; Jo1 5:20; Jo1 4:7, Jo1 4:8.\n\"I say, the acknowledgment of God in Christ\nAccepted by thy reason, solves for thee\nAll questions in the earth and out of it,\nAnd has so far advanced thee to be wise.\nWouldst thou improve this to reprove the proved?\nIn life's mere minute, with power to use that proof,\nLeave knowledge and revert to how it sprung?\nThou hast it; use it, and forthwith, or die.\nFor this I say is death, and the sole death,\nWhen a man's loss comes to him from his gain,\nDarkness from light, from knowledge ignorance,\nAnd lack of love from love made manifest.\"\nRobert Browning, \"A Death in the Desert.\"\nThe relation of perception of God to character is stated in Jo1 3:2, on which see note.\nTrue (\u1f00\u03bb\u03b7\u03b8\u03b9\u03bd\u1f78\u03bd)\nSee on Joh 1:9. Compare Co1 8:4; Ti1 6:15.\nJesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent\nThe Rev. brings out better the emphasis of the Greek order: and Him whom Thou didst send, even Jesus Christ. Didst send (\u1f00\u03c0\u03ad\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03b1\u03c2). The aorist tense, emphasizing the historic fact of Christ's mission.\nI have glorified - I have finished (\u1f10\u03b4\u03cc\u03be\u03b1\u03c3\u03b1 - \u1f10\u03c4\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03af\u03c9\u03c3\u03b1)\nThe best texts read, \u03c4\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03ce\u03c3\u03b1\u03c2, having finished; the participle defining the manner in which He had glorified the Father upon earth. So Rev.\nTo do (\u1f35\u03bd\u03b1 \u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03ae\u03c3\u03c9)\nLiterally, in order that I should do (it).\nWith Thyself (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u1f70 \u03c3\u03b5\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u1ff7)\nIn fellowship with Thyself. So with Thee (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u1f70 \u03c3\u03bf\u03af).\nI had\nActually possessed.\nThe words (\u03c4\u1f70 \u1fe5\u03ae\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1)\nCompare thy word (\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd), Joh 17:6. That signified the gospel message in its entirety. This, the message considered in its constituent parts. See on Luk 1:37. Compare Joh 5:38, Joh 5:47; Joh 6:60, Joh 6:63, Joh 6:68; Joh 8:43, Joh 8:47, Joh 8:51; Joh 12:47, Joh 12:48; Joh 15:3, Joh 15:7.\nI pray (\u1f10\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u1ff6)\nMore strictly, I make request. See on Joh 16:23. The I is emphatic, as throughout the prayer.\nAll mine (\u03c4\u1f70 \u1f10\u03bc\u1f70 \u03c0\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1)\nAll things that are mine. So Rev.\nI come (\u1f14\u03c1\u03c7\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9)\nI am coming. Spoken of His departure to the Father.\nHoly (\u1f05\u03b3\u03b9\u03b5)\nSee on saints, Act 26:10; also see on Pe1 1:15. Compare Jo1 2:20, and righteous Father (\u03b4\u03af\u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03b5), Joh 17:25. This epithet, now first applied to the Father, contemplates God, the holy One, as the agent of that which Christ desires for His disciples - holiness of heart and life; being kept from this evil world.\nThose whom (\u03bf\u1f53\u03c2)\nThe correct reading is \u1fa7, referring to name. Thy name which Thou hast given me. So in Joh 17:12. Compare Phi 2:9, Phi 2:10; Rev 2:17; Rev 19:12; Rev 22:4.\nIn the world\nOmit.\nI kept (\u1f10\u03c4\u03ae\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03bd)\nImperfect tense. I continued to keep. The I is emphatic: I kept them, now do Thou keep them.\nRev., rightly, I guarded. The A.V. overlooks the distinction between the two words for keeping. The former word means, I preserved them; the latter, I guarded them as a means to their preservation. See on reserved, Pe1 1:4.\nIs lost - perdition (\u1f00\u03c0\u03ce\u03bb\u03b5\u03c4\u03bf - \u1f00\u03c0\u03c9\u03bb\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nA play of words: \"None of them perished, but the son of perishing\" (Westcott).\nThe scripture (\u1f21 \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u1f74)\nSee close of note on Joh 5:47, and see on Mar 12:10.\nFrom the evil (\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03c0\u03bf\u03bd\u03b7\u03c1\u03bf\u1fe6)\nOr, the evil one. This rendering is according to John's usage. See Jo1 2:13, Jo1 2:14; Jo1 3:12; Jo1 5:18, Jo1 5:19; and compare Joh 12:31; Joh 14:30; Joh 16:11. From (\u1f10\u03ba), literally, out of, means out of the hands of.\nSanctify (\u1f01\u03b3\u03af\u03b1\u03c3\u03bf\u03bd)\nConstantly used in the Septuagint to express the entire dedication and consecration of both persons and things to God. See Exo 29:1, Exo 29:36; Exo 40:13; Lev 22:2, Lev 22:3. Rev., in margin, consecrate. See on Joh 10:36.\nThrough thy truth (\u1f10\u03bd \u03c4\u1fc7 \u1f00\u03bb\u03b7\u03b8\u03b5\u03af\u1fb3 \u03c3\u03bf\u03c5)\nThe best texts omit thy. Through (\u1f10\u03bd) is to be rendered literally, in, marking the sphere or element of consecration. Rev., sanctify them in the truth.\nThy word (\u1f41 \u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2 \u03bf \u03c3\u1f78\u03c2)\nProperly, the word which is thine. See on Joh 15:9.\nSent (\u1f00\u03c0\u03ad\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03b1\u03c2 - \u1f00\u03c0\u03ad\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03b1)\nOn a mission. See on Mat 10:16.\nSanctify\nSee on Joh 17:17.\nShall believe (\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03c5\u03c3\u03cc\u03bd\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd)\nThe best texts read \u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03c5\u03cc\u03bd\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd, the present participle, that believe. The future body of believers is conceived as actually existing.\nOn me through their word\nThe Greek order is, believe through their word on me. \"Believe through their word\" forms a compound idea.\nOne\nThey - whom (\u03bf\u1f53\u03c2)\nThe best texts read \u1f43, that which. The construction is similar to that in Joh 17:2, \"that He should give eternal life,\" etc. Like \u03c0\u1fb6\u03bd, all, in that passage, that which here refers to the body of believers taken collectively.\nI will (\u03b8\u03ad\u03bb\u03c9)\nSee on Mat 1:19.\nMy glory\nThe glory which is mine.","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: John: John Chapter 17","type":"page"}