10. Si praecepta mea 10. If you keep my servaveritis, manebitis in commandments, you shall abide dilectione mea, sicut et ego in my love; as I also have Patris mei praecepta servavi, kept my Father’s commandments, et maneo in eius dilectione. and do abide in his love. 10. Here he points out how they are to continue to enjoy His love: it is by keeping His commandments. 11. Haec locutus sum vobis, ut 11. These things I have spoken gaudium meum in vobis sit, et to you, that my joy may be in gaudium vestrum impleatur. you, and your joy may be filled. 11. The meaning is: these things, namely, that you should keep My commandments and continue to retain My love, I have spoken in order that My joy on account of you may continue (the true reading is ᾖ, not μείνῃ, but does not alter the sense), and your joy may be perfected. 12. Hoc est præceptum meum ut 12. This is my commandment, diligatis invicem, sicut that you love one another, as dilexi vos. I have loved you. 12. He had just said that the observance of His commandments is a necessary condition to be fulfilled by those who would retain His love, and now He goes on to point to one commandment that in a special manner is _His_, the “new commandment” (xiii. 34), to which they must attend. 13. Maiorem hac dilectionem 13. Greater love than this no nemo habet, ut animam suam man hath, that a man lay down ponat quis pro amicis suis. his life for his friends. 13. In this verse He explains what sort is that love of His upon which theirs must be modelled (comp. 1 John iii. 16). The meaning is, that no greater proof of love for a friend can be given than to lay down one’s life for him. This He was about to do for them. The comparison is not between dying for a _friend_ and dying for an _enemy_, but between the different proofs of love for a friend. 14. Vos amici mei estis, si 14. You are my friends, if you feceritis quae ego praecipio do the things that I command vobis. you. 14. Here He shows that in speaking of laying down His life for His friends, He means laying it down for the Apostles. 15. Iam non dicam vos servos, 15. I will not now call you quia servus nescit quid faciat servants: for the servant dominus eius. Vos autem dixi knoweth not what his Lord amicos: quia omnia quaecumque doth. But I have called you audivi a Patre meo, nota feci friends: because all things vobis. whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.