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Joh 15:11. Ἡ χαρὰ ἡ ἐμὴ, My joy) the joy which I feel at My departure to the Father, a joy which flows from love.-ᾖ, may be[360]) ch. Joh 17:26, “I have declared unto them Thy name, etc., that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them and I in them.”-ὑμῶν, your) your joy being kindled by Mine.-πληρωθῇ, may be fulfilled [“might be full”]) This is said of the joy of the disciples. For the joy of Jesus needs not at any particular time, or by any particular to be made full [It always is full].
[360] This reading indeed had been set down, in the margin of the larger Ed., among those not to be approved of; but the decision as to it being changed in the 2d Edition, it was received into the Germ. Version.-E. B. ABDabc Vulg. read ᾖ: Rec. Text, μείνῃ, without old authority.-E. and T.