νῦν δέ. But now. Hitherto He has been with them to guard them, but now He is going away: and He is praying thus aloud in order that His words may comfort them when they remember that before He went He consigned them to His Father’s keeping. Comp. John 11:42. For τ. χαρὰν τ. ἐμήν see on John 8:31.

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