George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
John 15:18
If the world hate you. The wicked, unbelieving world, hate and persecute you, as they have done me; remember, that the servant must not desire to be treated better than his master. (Witham)
If the world hate you. The wicked, unbelieving world, hate and persecute you, as they have done me; remember, that the servant must not desire to be treated better than his master. (Witham)
Verse John 15:18. _IF THE WORLD HATE YOU_] As the followers of Christ were to be exposed to the hatred of the world, it was no small consolation to them to know that that hatred would be only in prop...
IF THE WORLD HATE YOU - The friendship of the world they were not to expect, but they were not to be deterred from their work by its hatred. They had seen the example of Jesus. No opposition of the pr...
CHAPTER 15 1. The Vine and the Branch. (John 15:1 .) 2. Communion with Him and its Conditions.(John 15:9 .) 3. Love One Another! and the Hatred of the World. (John 15:17 .) Israel is called a vine...
JOHN 15. THE VINE. The relation of the following Chapter s to 14 has been discussed. The Parœ mia, or parable-like discourse, reminds us of the parable or metaphor of the Good Shepherd in ch. 10. Two...
IF THE WORLD HATES YOU, YE KNOW THAT IT HATED ME. The world, as used by the Savior, means the unconverted, unspiritual, sensual, selfish and worldly portion of mankind, nearly all of our race at the t...
"If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have pi...
THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES (John 15:1-10)...
IF. App-118. WORLD. Greek. _kosmos._ See John 14:17 and App-129. YE KNOW. know (imperative mood) Greek. _ginosko._ App-132. HATED. hath hated. Therefore continues to hate....
The Hatred of the World to both Him and them In strong contrast to the love and union between Christ and His disciples and among the disciples themselves is the hatred of the world to Him and them. H...
_ye know that it hated me_ Better, KNOW _that it_ HATH _hated me_(comp. John 15:20). As in John 14:1 the principal verb may be either indicative or imperative, and the imperative is preferable: the se...
ΓΙΝΏΣΚΕΤΕ] Either _ye know_, or _know ye, that it_ HATH _hated Me_. As in John 14:1, the imperative seems preferable to the indicative: in John 15:27 and John 5:39 the context throws the balance the o...
THE HATRED OR THE WORLD TO BOTH HIM AND THEM In strong contrast to the love and union between Christ and His disciples and among the disciples themselves is the hatred of the world to Him and them. He...
Ver 17. These things I command you, that you love one another. 18. If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. 19. If you were of the world, the world would love his own: bu...
ΓΙΝΏΣΚΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать; здесь в _знач._ "признавать". ΜΕΜΊΣΗΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΜΙΣΈΩ (G3404) ненавидеть. _Perf._ указывает на постоянное отношение (Morris)....
DISCOURSE: 1698 CONSOLATION TO THE PERSECUTED John 15:18. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are...
THESE THINGS I COMMAND YOU,— 'Εντελλομαι υμιν, _I inculcate upon you._"I haveexplained to you the high nature and vast importance of your office, as my apostles; and I have put you in mind of my lovin...
PERSEVERING UNION OF THE PERSECUTED _Text 15:18-27_ 18 If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but be...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 15:17-27 The following is an Analysis of the closing section of John 15:— A loving heart would feign discover or induce love everywhere. To be ungratified in th...
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. IF THE WORLD HATE YOU, YE KNOW THAT IT HATED ME BEFORE IT HATED YOU....
12 As the Lord had explained in His kingdom proclamation, the whole law was included in the one word, love. Love to God and love to man is far more than all the precepts of the law. So, in His final c...
15:18 know (e-6) Or 'ye know;' objective knowledge....
THE TRUE YINE. THE WITNESS OF THE COMFORTER AND OF THE APOSTLES 1-17. The allegory of the True Vine and its interpretation. The metaphor of 'the vine' was suggested by 'the fruit of the vine' which ha...
Cp. 1 John 3:13. The world is mankind regarded as alienated from God....
THE WORLD'S HATRED] cp. the similar predictions, Matthew 10:16; Matthew 24:9; Luke 21:12; Luke 21:16 cp. also...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 15 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT THE *VINE AND THE BRANCHES 15:1-17 V1 Then Jesus said, ‘I am like the perfect *vine. My *Father...
IF THE WORLD HATE YOU. — He has spoken of their close union with Himself, and of their love to each other. He proceeds in the remainder of the chapter to speak of their relation to the world. There is...
XIV. _ THE SPIRIT CHRIST'S WITNESS._ "If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the w...
Εἰ ὁ κόσμος … μεμίσηκεν, “If the world hates you,” as it does (indicative); “the world” is contrasted with “one another” of John 15:17, with the disciples who were to love. γινώσκετε, “ye know,” or, i...
_The relation of the disciples to the world_....
SUFFERING FOR JESUS' SAKE John 15:17-27 We have been appointed for the one purpose of bearing imperishable fruit, but our holy service to the world will never be appreciated. The world has its own go...
Our Lord now uttered the great allegory of the vine. Certain words in it arrest our attention, "the vine," "the branches," "the fruit." The close interrelationship between these is emphasized, and our...
(6) If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you. (6) When the faithful ministers of Christ are hated by the world as their master was, it should not cause them to fear, but...
CHAPTER 23 THE VALEDICTORY SERMON John 14-16. Now that the Passover meal has been enjoyed, and that celebrated Mosaic institution totally eclipsed by bloody Calvary, normally verified and abolished f...
“ _If the world hates you, know that I have been the object of its hatred before you._ 19. _If you were of the world, the world would love what belongs to it; but because you are not of the world and...
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. (10) If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his lov...
In John 15:1-27 our Lord substitutes Himself for Israel, as the plant of God, responsible to bear fruit for Him on earth (not merely for man, as such, openly sinful and lost). He takes the place of th...
18._If the world hate you. _After having armed the Apostles for the battle, Christ exhorts them likewise to patience; for the Gospel cannot be published without instantly driving the world to rage. Co...
The beginning of this chapter, and that which relates to the vine, belongs to the earthly portion to that which Jesus was on earth to His relationship with His disciples as on the earth, and does not...
IF THE WORLD HATE YOU,.... After our Lord had signified how much he loved his disciples and what great things he had done for them, he faithfully acquaints them with the world's hatred of them, and wh...
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before _it hated_ you. Ver. 18. _If the world hate you, &c._] As it will because it is condemned by your contrary practice, and is carried on by a cont...
_These things I command you_, &c. Again I would remind you, that if you would continue thus to be the objects of these my Father's gracious regards, you must carefully practise your duty to each other...
The result of the Christians' calling:...
IF THE WORLD HATE YOU, YE KNOW THAT IT HATED ME BEFORE IT HATED YOU....
THE MINISTRY OF EXHORTATION CHRIST THE TRUE VINE (vs.1-8) The Lord's ministry of comfort, or of binding up, has been seen in chapter 14. Now in chapter 15 it is that of stirring up, or of exhortatio...
18-25 How little do many persons think, that in opposing the doctrine of Christ as our Prophet, Priest, and King, they prove themselves ignorant of the one living and true God, whom they profess to w...
In the latter part of this chapter our Lord cometh to comfort those who were his true disciples, against that third trouble, from the prospect they had of that hatred which the world would pour out an...
Cyprian Epistle LV Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you."[16] Cyprian Treatise XI Exhortation to...
John 15:18 If G1487 world G2889 hates G3404 (G5719) you G5209 know G1097 (G5719) (G5720) that...
3). THE DISCIPLES MUST NOT BE SURPRISED IF THEY ARE HATED BY THE WORLD (JOHN 15:18)....
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world,...
John 15:18. IF THE WORLD HATETH YOU, KNOW THAT IT HATH HATED ME BEFORE IT HATED YOU. It is the active work of the disciples that has been before us in the preceding verses, but that work always has pr...
We have already considered the circumstances under which the two Chapter s upon which we now enter were spoken; and, if we have been correct in the view taken of them, we are not to imagine that the f...
IF THE WORLD HATETH YOU (ε ο κοσμος υμας μισε). Condition of the first class. As it certainly does.YE KNOW (γινωσκετε). Present active second person plural indicative of γινωσκω or present active...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "world-system". (John 16:11); (John 16:33); (John 7:7). (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8). _
John 15:18 The World we have Renounced Perhaps there is no word more commonly in our mouths than "the world," and yet hardly any to which we attach less clear and certain meaning indeed, the sense in...
John 15:12. _This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you._ O beloved, do keep this commandment! Overlook each other's infirmities. Bear with each other's faults. Love one an...
John 15:1. _I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman._ Not only the Mosaic law, but the whole creation is full of types of Christ. All the vines that we see in this world are only as it we...
Many of you know the words of this chapter by heart; you could repeat them without a mistake. May the savor of them abide in your hearts even as the letter of them abides in your memory! John 15:1. _...
John 15:9. _As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you:_ Oh, drink this nectar down! It is as when Cleopatra dissolved the pearl into a single draught; for here is the choicest pearl of truth t...
CONTENTS: Jesus' discourse on the vine and the branches. The believer and the world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples. CONCLUSION: Jesus is the true vine, in which the life of believers, as abiding...
John 15:1. _I am the true vine._ The vine through every age had designated the Hebrew church; here the Lord employs it to designate the Christian church, of which he is the head, and the source of lif...
IF THE WORLD HATES YOU. The _world_ is "natural man," unbelieving, who have Satan as their ruler....
_If the world hate you_ KOSMOS: UNREGENERATE HUMANITY is here presented. I. AS GLOWING WITH HATE. 1. It was a hatred of goodness. To hate the mean, the selfish, the false, the dishonest, and moral...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 15:18. IF THE WORLD HATE YOU, ETC.—He now directs the attention of the disciples to their relation toward the world. Christ _loves_ His disciples, the world _hat...
EXPOSITION JOHN 15:1 (7) _The parable of the vine and its branches_._ Incorporation of the disciples into one personality with himself_._ _The image of the vine may have been suggested by some visib...
Tonight let's turn now to John's gospel chapter 15, as we follow Jesus in His last hours prior to the cross. Jesus had been at the last supper with His disciples there in the upper room somewhere in J...
1 John 3:1; 1 John 3:13; 1 John 3:3; 1 Kings 22:8; Hebrews 12:2;...
If the world hate [ε ι μ ι σ ε ι]. Literally, hates. The indicative mood with the conditional particle assumes the fact as existing : If the world hates you, as it does. Ye know [γ ι ν ω σ κ ε τ ε]....