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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 17:12 - 17:12
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I kept - guarded.
them in thy name - acting as Thy Representative on earth.
none of them is lost, but the son of perdition - It is not implied here that the son of perdition was one of those whom the Father had given to the Son, but rather the contrary (Joh 13:18) [Webster and Wilkinson]. It is just as in Luk 4:26, Luk 4:27, where we are not to suppose that the woman of Sarepta (in Sidon) was one of the widows of Israel, nor Naaman the Syrian one of the lepers in Israel, though the language - the same as here - might seem to express it.
son of perdition - doomed to it (2Th 2:3; Mar 14:21).