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Joh 13:8. Λέγει, saith) A second protestation against it need not to have been added.-εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, ever at any time) Peter opposes this to the μετὰ ταῦτα, hereafter, Joh 13:7. An emphatic form of denying: 1Co 8:13, “I will eat no flesh εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, while the world standeth.”-ἐάν, if) We ought to yield to the will of the Lord.-σέ) thee, saith He, not thy feet. This brevity of expression is strictly accurate; for he who has not his feet washed, is accounted as wholly unwashed.-οὐκ ἔχεις, thou hast not) The necessity for that grace [humility] was shown to them through the washing of their feet. There is no doubt but that the wonderful humility of the Lord very much changed and melted the souls of the disciples. Peter especially was in need of it.-μετʼ ἐμοῦ, with Me) Jesus therefore [notwithstanding this act of humiliation] still remains their Lord.