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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 17:3 - 17:3
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this is - that.
life eternal, that they might - may.
know, etc. - This life eternal, then, is not mere conscious and unending existence, but a life of acquaintance with God in Christ (Job 22:21).
thee, the only true God - the sole personal living God; in glorious contrast equally with heathen polytheism, philosophic naturalism, and mystic pantheism.
and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent - This is the only place where our Lord gives Himself this compound name, afterwards so current in apostolic preaching and writing. Here the terms are used in their strict signification - “JESUS,” because He “saves His people from their sins”; “Christ,” as anointed with the measureless fullness of the Holy Ghost for the exercise of His saving offices (see on Mat 1:16); “WHOM THOU HAST SENT,” in the plenitude of Divine Authority and Power, to save. “The very juxtaposition here of Jesus Christ with the Father is a proof, by implication, of our Lord’s Godhead. The knowledge of God and a creature could not be eternal life, and such an association of the one with the other would be inconceivable” [Alford].