John 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father… Concerning all saints it is implied — I. THAT THEY ARE WEAK AND CANNOT KEEP THEMSELVES. II. THAT THEY ARE IN GOD'S SIGHT VALUABLE AND WORTH KEEPING. III. THAT THEIR SALVATION IS DESIGNED, for it is that to which they are kept (1 Peter 1:5). IV. THAT THEY ARE IN THE CHARGE OF THE LORD JESUS. V. THAT THEY ARE KEPT IN HARMONY WITH THEM MORAL FREEDOM, "kept by the power of God through faith." (M. Henry.) None of them is lost but the son of perdition. — A son of perdition implies the quality expressed by perdition — "None of them perished but him whose nature it was to perish." The term is a well-known Hebrew idiom by which the lack of qualitative adjectives is supplied by abstract substantives which express that quality. Thus a disobedient child is "a son of disobedience," and so "children of light" and "of darkness." Judas lost himself. Even after the betrayal he might have been saved had he fled to the cross. There is no "keeping in God's name" independently of "keeping God's word." This Judas did not do. (W. H. Fan Doren, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. |
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