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Joh_17:14-15. The intercession addresses itself to a particular, definite point of the τήρησις prayed for, namely, ἐκ τοῦ πονηροῦ , Joh_17:15, and this is introduced, Joh_17:14, from the side of their necessities.
ἐγώ ] antithesis: ὁ κόσμος .
ἐμίσ . αὐτούς ] has conceived a hatred against them (Aor., see Lobeck, ad Phryn. p. 197; Kühner, ad Xen. Mem. i. 1. 18). This hatred Luther terms “the true court colours of Christians that they bear on earth.” Further, see on Joh_15:18-19.
The more precise definition of τήρησις follows in Joh_17:15 negatively and positively. They are not (“for I have still more to accomplish by their means,” Luther) to be taken out of the unbelieving world which hates them (which would take place by death, as now in the case of Jesus Himself, Joh_17:11), but they are to be kept by God, so that they ever come forth, morally uninjured, from the power of Satan surrounding them, the power of the prince of the world. ἐ κ τ . πονηροῦ is not, with Luther, Calvin, and many others, including Olshausen, B. Crusius, Hengstenberg, Godet, to be taken as neuter, but comp. 1Jn_2:13 ff; 1Jn_3:12; 1Jn_5:18-19; 1Jn_4:4; Mat_6:13; 2Th_3:3; comp. on τηρεῖν ἐκ , Rev_3:10, also φυλάσσειν ἐξ ἐπιβουλῆς in Themist. 181. 19 (Dindorf). Nonnus: δαίμονος ἀρχεκάκοιο δυσαντήτων ἀπὸ θεσμῶν .