Robertson Word Pictures - John 6:57 - 6:57

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Robertson Word Pictures - John 6:57 - 6:57


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The living Father (ho zōn patēr). Nowhere else in the N.T., but see Joh 5:26 and “the living God” (Mat 16:16; 2Co 6:16). The Father is the source of life and so “I live because of the Father” (kagō zō dia ton patera).

He that eateth me (ho trōgōn me). Still bolder putting of the mystical appropriation of Christ (Joh 6:51, Joh 6:53, Joh 6:54, Joh 6:56).

Because of me (di' eme). The same idea appears in Joh 14:19 : “Because I live ye shall live also.” See Joh 11:25. Jesus Christ is our ground of hope and guarantee of immortality. Life is in Christ. There is no real difficulty in this use of dia with the accusative as with dia ton patera just before. It occurs also in Joh 15:3. As the Father is the fount of life to Christ, so Christ is the fount of life to us. See 1Jo 4:9 where dia is used with the genitive (di' autou) as the intermediate agent, not the ground or reason as here.