Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I
It is this same Father of His, then who being one is manifested by many powers And this was the import of the utterance, "No man knew the Father,"[176]
Origen de Principiis Book II
Finally, in the Gospel according to John, our Lord Himself, when praying to the Father, says, "O just Father, the world hath not known Thee."[74]
Verse John 17:25. _THE WORLD HATH NOT KNOWN THEE_] Has not acknowledged me. See on John 1:11. _AND THESE HAVE KNOWN_] Here our Lord, returning to the disciples, speaks: 1st. Of their having _receive...
HATH NOT KNOWN THEE - See the notes at John 17:3....
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. The Finished Work. (John 17:1 .)_ 2. The Father's Name and the Father's Gift. (John 17:6 .) 3. Not of the World but Kept in it. (John 17:11 .) 4. Sanctification of Himself for His O...
JOHN 13:33 TO JOHN 17:26. THE LAST DISCOURSES AND PRAYER. Perhaps this is the best place to consider the general arrangement and character of the final discourses. They present the same problems of st...
JOHN 17:25 F. reviews, after the author's wont, the main points of the whole, in a final appeal to the Father's justice on behalf of the disciples against the world, the refusal of the world to accept...
HAVE KNOWN THEE. The world knew not God, and Christ came to reveal him. He had revealed him to his disciples and they would reveal him to the world....
THE GLORY OF THE CROSS (John 17:1-5)...
"And I have given them the glory which you gave me, that they may be one as we are one. I am in them, and you are in me, so that their unity with us and with each other may stand consummated and compl...
RIGHTEOUS FATHER. See on John 17:11. HATH NOT KNOWN THEE. knew Thee not. See John 8:55.Romans 1:18. 1Co 1:21. 1 Corinthians 2:8....
Summary 25. _righteous Father_ The epithet (comp. John 17:11) harmonizes with the appeal to the _justice_of God which follows, which is based on a simple statement of the facts. The world knew not Go...
ΠΑΤῊΡ ΔΊΚΑΙΕ. The epithet (comp. John 17:11) harmonizes with the appeal to the _justice_ of God which follows, which is based on a simple statement of the facts. The world knew not God; Christ knew Hi...
THE PRAYER FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH Christ having prayed first for the _Author_ of salvation, and then for the _instruments_ of the work, now prays for the _objects_ of it. The limitation stated in John...
25, 26. SUMMARY...
VER 24. FATHER, I WILL THAT THEY ALSO, WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN ME, BE WITH ME WHERE I AM; THAT THEY MAY BEHOLD MY GLORY, WHICH YOU HAVE GIVEN ME: FOR YOU LOVED ME BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. 25. O...
ΚΑΊ (G2532) оба; т.е. и мир, и сии (Morris). ΈΓΝΩ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ, _см._ John 17:7....
O RIGHTEOUS FATHER, &C.— "O Father, who art the Author of all righteous designs, and the lover of righteous men; nay, and from whose very righteousness flows the admission of believers to thee; though...
PRAYER FOR ALL BELIEVERS _Text: John 17:20-26_ 20 Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word; 21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 17:20-26 The following is an Analysis of the dosing section of John 17:— We have now arrived at the dosing section of this wonderful Prayer, a section which sup...
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. O RIGHTEOUS FATHER, THE WORLD HATH NOT KNOWN THEE: BUT I HAVE KNOWN THEE, AND...
4 The charge against all mankind is that all sin and are wanting of the glory of God (Rom_3:23). God guarantees to give glory and honor and incorruption to all who endure in good acts. Our Lord is the...
17:25 Father, (e-2) Or 'of the world righteous Father! -- And,' &c....
CHRIST'S HIGH-PRIESTLY PRAYER 1-26. Christ's Great Intercession for Himself, for the Apostles, and for the World. This prayer is often, and suitably called Christ's 'High-priestly prayer,' because in...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 17 JESUS PRAYS ON HIS OWN BEHALF 17:1-5 V1 After Jesus said all these things, he looked up towards heaven. He prayed: ‘...
O RIGHTEOUS FATHER, THE WORLD HATH NOT KNOWN THEE. — Better,... _the world indeed knew Thee not._ In these closing words of His prayer, our Lord again solemnly appeals to the Father (comp. Notes on Jo...
XVI. _ CHRIST'S INTERCESSORY PRAYER._ "These things spake Jesus; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son, that the Son may glorify Thee: even as Thou gave...
Πάτερ δίκαιε, “Righteous Father”. The appeal is now to God's justice; “ut tua bonitas me miserat servandsn si qua fieri potuisset, omnibus; ita tui, justitia non patietur ob quorundam iacredulitatem f...
_Prayer for future believers_....
THE MASTER'S COMMISSION John 17:18-26 In John 10:36 we are told that the Father consecrated our Redeemer to the great work by which He had brought nigh them that were far off, Ephesians 2:13. What a...
This chapter records for us words of our Lord addressed to His Father. In the first movement He was dealing strictly and only with relationships between Himself and the Father, referring to a past glo...
CHAPTER 24. VALEDICTORY PRAYER John 17. O the infinite moment, interest, value, and consolation of this prayer! Because it is the last, regular, formal petition our Savior offered for His disciples i...
VV. 25, 26 have as their aim to justify this last will of Jesus, not only from the standpoint of grace, but even from that of _righteousness_, precisely that one of the divine perfections which might...
Jesus prays for the union of believers with Himself and among themselves. ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 20-26. 1. John 17:20-24. The prayer now turns to the great company of believers...
THIRD SECTION: 17:1-26. THE PRAYER. The shout of victory with which Jesus closed His conversations with the disciples was an anticipation of faith. To transform the victory which was announced into a...
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; (21) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in u...
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...
25._Righteous Father. _He compares his disciples to _the world, _so as to describe more fully the approbation and favour which they had received from _the Father; _for it is proper that they who alone...
chapter 17 is divided thus: John 17:1-5 relate to Christ Himself, to His taking His position in glory, to His work, and to that glory as belonging to His Person, and the result of His work. John 17:1-...
O RIGHTEOUS FATHER,.... God is righteous in all the divine persons: the Father is righteous, the Son is righteous, and the Holy Spirit is righteous: he is so in his nature; righteousness is a perfecti...
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. Ver. 25. _O righteous Father_] God's righteousness is either, 1. Of equity, to p...
_O righteous Father_ Faithful and just, as well as merciful. When he prayed that believers might be sanctified, he called him _holy Father:_ but now, praying that they might be glorified, he terms him...
NOT KNOWN; not known so as to love and obey him. THESE; his apostles and disciples....
O RIGHTEOUS FATHER, THE WORLD HATH NOT KNOWN THEE; BUT I HAVE KNOWN THEE, AND THESE HAVE KNOWN THAT THOU HAST SENT ME....
The conclusion of the prayer:...
HIS MINISTRY OF INTERCESSION (v.1) In Chapter s 13 to 16 the Lord has completed what He had to tell His disciples, ending with the empowering ministry of chapter 16. He has made every provision for t...
24-26 Christ, as one with the Father, claimed on behalf of all that had been given to him, and should in due time believe on him, that they should be brought to heaven; and that there the whole compa...
It is observed, that the servants of God, in holy writ, have used in their prayers to give unto God such compellations as have been suitable to the things which they have begged of God in their prayer...
John 17:25 G2532 righteous G1342 Father G3962 world G2889 has G1097 not G3756 known G1097 (G5627) You...
JESUS PRAYS IN THE UPPER ROOM (JOHN 17). Depending on how we interpret John 14:31 this prayer appears either to have been made in the Upper Room, or at some spot on the way to the Garden of Gethsemane...
JESUS DEDICATES ALL WHO WILL RESPOND TO HIM THROUGH HIS APOSTLES (JOHN 17:20). Jesus was now looking far ahead, beyond His own group of disciples, as He began to pray for all who would become believer...
“Oh righteous Father, the world did not know you, but I knew you, and these knew that you sent me. And I made known to them your name and will make it known, that the love wherewith you loved me may b...
John 17:25. RIGHTEOUS FATHER, BOTH THE WORLD LEARNED NOT TO KNOW THEE, BUT I LEARNED TO KNOW THEE, AND THESE LEARNED TO KNOW THAT THOU DIDST SEND ME. Not in the last clause of John 17:24, but now, we...
O RIGHTEOUS FATHER (Πατηρ δικαιε). Nominative form with πατηρ used as vocative (cf. John 20:28), but vocative form δικαιε. Then the righteousness of God is appealed to like God's holiness in verse...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
John 17:25 The Religion of Daily Life I. These are the words of the greatest man that ever lived; of the founder of our religion, even of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. They were spoken the night befo...
We will read this evening a portion of two prayers offered by our Divine Lord and Master on that night in which he was betrayed. The first is that memorable intercessory prayer of his recorded in the...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and, lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come;_ The hour to which he had so long looked forward, the hour which he had anticipated with ar...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, thee hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:_ The hour has come. The most important...
CONTENTS: Jesus' prayer of intercession. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, Judas. CONCLUSION: If God be our Father, we have an intercessor to appear for us continually to guarantee our safe delivery...
John 17:1. _Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son._ By Father the divinity is understood, the Father being the fountain of deity. The hour of my passion being come, glorify thy Son by speedily rai...
AND I WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO. By his death and by sending the Spirit of truth. The purpose of this, is so that the love the Father has for the Son will be _in_ the disciples from that time on, to the...
_O righteous Father, the world hath not known Thee_ THE “AMEN” TO THE SUBLIMEST OF ALL PRAYERS I. GOD AND THE WORLD. 1. God. (1) His relationship--“Father.” No relationship is more intelligible, a...
_0 righteous Father, the world hath not known Thee: but I have known Thee, and these have known that Thou hast sent Me_. Why does He call the Father 'Righteous?' (1.) S. Augustine (_in loc_.) says, "B...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 17:1. THESE THINGS SPAKE, ETC. (ταῦτα ἐλάλησεν).—The reference is to the discourse just ended. LIFTED UP.—From the troubles of earth and time the mind and soul ar...
EXPOSITION JOHN 17:1 4. The _high-priestly intercession_._ Audible communion of the Son with the Father_._ _The prayer which now follows reveals, in the loftiest and sublimest form, the Divine human...
These words spake Jesus, and he lifted up his eyes to heaven (John 17:1), Now He is finished with His disciples and He turns now to the Father. He said, "I am not alone; the Father is with Me." And co...
1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 15:34; 1 John 5:19; 1 John 5:20;...
LOOKING BACKWARD John 17:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The seventeenth chapter of John contains the prayer which Jesus Christ uttered in the upper room after He had taken of the Passover and had broken the...
THE CHRISTIAN AND THE WORLD John 17:6 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We face a sad spectacle in the history of the church at this time. The world has become so entrenched in the life and activities of the chur...
Righteous Father — The admission of believers to God through Christ, flows even from the justice of God....
Observe here, 1. The appellation given to God: O RIGHTEOUS FATHER. This is the sixth time that Christ in this prayer has called God, Father, it being so sweet. relation, and producing all love, deligh...