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17. ἁγίασον. Sanctify or consecrate. It expresses God’s destination of them for their work and His endowment of them with the powers necessary for their work. The word is used of God’s consecration of Jeremiah, Moses, and the Chosen People (Jer 1:5; Sir 49:7; Sir 45:4; 2Ma 1:25). This prayer has been called “the Prayer of Consecration.” The Truth in which they are consecrated is the whole Christian revelation, the new environment in which believers are placed for their sanctification; just as a sickly wild plant is strengthened and changed by being transplanted into a garden. For ὁ λόγος ὁ σός see on Joh 8:31 : God’s revelation as a whole is meant, not any single utterance or collection of utterances: see on Joh 3:34.