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But that he may steal, and kill, and destroy (ei mē hina klepsēi kai thusēi kai apolesēi). Literally, “except that” (ei mē) common without (Mat 12:4) and with verb (Gal 1:7), “if not” (literally), followed here by final hina and three aorist active subjunctives as sometimes by hotan (Mar 9:9) or hoti (2Co 12:13). Note the order of the verbs. Stealing is the purpose of the thief, but he will kill and destroy if necessary just like the modern bandit or gangster.
I came that they may have life (egō ēlthon hina zōēn echōsin). In sharp contrast (egō) as the good shepherd with the thieves and robbers of Joh 10:1 came Jesus. Note present active subjunctive (echōsin), “that they (people) may keep on having life (eternal, he means)” as he shows in Joh 10:28. He is “the life” (Joh 14:6).
And may have it abundantly (kai perisson echōsin). Repetition of echōsin (may keep on having) abundance (perisson, neuter singular of perissos). Xenophon (Anab. VII. vi. 31) uses perisson echein, “to have a surplus,” true to the meaning of overflow from peri (around) seen in Paul’s picture of the overplus (hupereperisseusen in Rom 5:20) of grace. Abundance of life and all that sustains life, Jesus gives.