Joh 15:16, 2Ti 2:21 | JFB | STEP | 16. Ye have not chosen me, but I . . . you —a wholesale memento after the lofty things He had just said about their mutual indwelling, and the unreservedness of the friendship they had been admitted to. ordained —appointed. you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit —that is, give yourselves to it. and that your fruit should remain —showing itself to be an imperishable and ever growing principle. (Compare ). that whatsoever ye shall ask, &c.

John 15:16

16. Ye have not chosen me, but I . . . you—a wholesale memento after the lofty things He had just said about their mutual indwelling, and the unreservedness of the friendship they had been admitted to.

ordained—appointed.

you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit—that is, give yourselves to it.

and that your fruit should remain—showing itself to be an imperishable and ever growing principle. (Compare Pr 4:18; 2Jo 8).

that whatsoever ye shall ask, &c.—(See on Joh 15:7).

2 Timothy 2:21

21. If a man . . . purge himself from these—The Greek expresses "If one (for example, thou, Timothy) purify himself (so as to separate) from among these" (vessels unto dishonor).

sanctified—set apart as wholly consecrated to the Lord.

and meet—Some oldest manuscripts omit "and."

the master's—the Lord's. Paul himself was such a vessel: once one among those of earth, but afterwards he became by grace one of gold.

prepared unto every good work— (2Ti 3:17; Tit 3:1). Contrast Tit 1:16.