The protection now asked had been afforded by Christ so long as He was with the disciples. ὅτε ἤμην μετʼ αὐτῶν, ἐγὼ ἐτήρουν … “when I was with them, I kept them in Thy name which Thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled”. On the detail of educative care spent on the disciples, and covered by ἐτὴρουν, see Bernard, Central Teaching, p. 370. ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας, cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:3, in accordance with the usual Hebrew usage, the person identified with perdition, closely associated with it. Cf. Isaiah 57:4; Isaiah 33:2; Matthew 23:15. Raphel quotes from Herodotus, viii., ὕβριος υἱόν, with the remark, “nee Graecis plane ignotus est hic loquendi modus”. The Scripture referred to is Psalms 41:10, as in John 18:18.

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