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Joh_15:7. After thus deterring from non-abiding, in Joh_15:6, now again an inducement to abiding. But the figure now ceases, and leaves in what follows some further scarcely accordant notes (Joh_15:8; Joh_15:16) behind.
ἐὰν μείν . ἐν ἐμοί ] Still in the sense of the figure, as the branches on the vine; but with καὶ τὰ ῥήμ . μ . ἐν ὑμῖν (in animis vestris), expressing the necessary consequence of a man’s abiding on Jesus, the language at once becomes proper, no longer figurative.
ὃ ἐὰν θέλ .] stands first with emphasis; but such an one wills and prays simply and solely in the name of Jesus (Joh_14:13-14), and cannot do otherwise.