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Joh_15:3. Application of the second half of Joh_15:2 to the disciples, in so far as they belong to the κλήματα ; as a preparation for the exhortation in Joh_15:4. “Already are ye clean” (such purified κλήματα ); already there has taken place in your case, that which I have just said. The ἤδη ὑμεῖς glances at the multitude of those who were yet to become καθαροί in the future. That their purity originally is intended, not excluding the necessary continuance and practical further development of the relation (comp. Joh_13:10), is understood as a matter of course, and see Joh_15:4. The mundi cease not to be mundandi.
διὰ τ . λόγον ] διά , as Joh_6:57 of the ground; hence: on account of the word, i.e. because the word (“provided it be received and apprehended in faith,” Luther, comp. Act_15:9) is the power of God (Rom_1:16), in virtue of which it effects its καθαίρει , Joh_15:2; Jam_1:18; 1Pe_1:23. Comp. Fritzsche, ad Rom. II. p. 162, I. p. 197; Nägelsbach, z. Ilias, p. 39 f., ed. 3. The word, however, is the whole word, the entire doctrine which Jesus has delivered to them (comp. on Joh_8:43), not the utterance in Joh_13:10 (Hilgenfeld, Ebrard).