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Joh_10:27-28. Description of the relation of the πρόβατα to Him (comp. Joh_10:4; Joh_10:14), which brings clearly to view that the Ἰουδαῖοι cannot belong to them. Notice in Joh_10:27 the climactic parallelism of the two halves of the verse as far as δίδωμι αὐτοῖς (Joh_10:28), after which, commencing with καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀπόλ ., etc., the discourse goes on to express in a double form the inseparableness of the blessed relationship. On the emphatic polysyndeton, compare Joh_10:3; Joh_10:12.
τὰ πρόβ . τὰ ἐμά ] the sheep which belong to me.
ζωὴν αἰών .] also conceived already in its temporal development, Joh_3:15, Joh_5:24, and repeatedly.
καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀπόλ .] The negation belongs to the verb; this declaration: “they shall certainly not perish,” will be accomplished in eternity. The lost sheep, i.e. the sheep which has been separated, and wandered away from the flock (Mat_10:6; Luk_15:4), typifies him who is separated from the protection and gracious leading of Christ, who has fallen into unbelief. Compare the following καὶ οὐχ ἁρπάσει , etc., where this protection and gracious leading is set forth with still more concrete tenderness by the words ἐκ τῆς χειρός μου . His hand protects, bears, cherishes, leads them. Liberty and the possibility of apostasy are not thus excluded (in answer to Augustine and the teaching of the Reformed Church); he who has fallen away is no longer a πρόβατον , but on the part of Christ everything is promised by which preserving grace is secured, and this is the ground of the Certitudo salutis.