Joh 17:14-15, 1Jo 4:4 | JFB | STEP | 9-14. I pray for them —not as individuals merely, but as representatives of all such in every succeeding age (see on ). not for the world —for they had been given Him " out of the world" ( ), and had been already transformed into the very opposite of it. The things sought for them, indeed, are applicable only to such.

John 17:14-15

9-14. I pray for them—not as individuals merely, but as representatives of all such in every succeeding age (see on Joh 17:20).

not for the world—for they had been given Him "out of the world" (Joh 17:6), and had been already transformed into the very opposite of it. The things sought for them, indeed, are applicable only to such.

15-19. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world—for that, though it would secure their own safety, would leave the world unblessed by their testimony.

but . . . keep them from the evil—all evil in and of the world.

1 John 4:4

4. Ye—emphatical: YE who confess Jesus: in contrast to "them," the false teachers.

overcome them— (1Jo 5:4, 5); instead of being "overcome and brought into (spiritual) bondage" by them (2Pe 2:19). Joh 10:8, 5, "the sheep did not hear them": "a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers."

he that is in you—God, of whom ye are.

he that is in the word—the spirit of Antichrist, the devil, "the prince of this world."