17. Some take the meaning to be: these things, namely, the greatness and gratuitousness of My love for you _I insist upon_, to the end that you may love one another. Others as Mald. and Patriz. take the meaning to be the same as in verse 11: this is what I command you, namely, that you love one another. The use of ταῦτα (haec) and not τοῦτο (hoc) is rather against the latter view, but it is replied that the plural demonstrative followed by the single precept is intended to signify that charity is the fulfilment of the whole law. 18. Si mundus vos odit, 18. If the world hate you, scitote quia me priorem vobis know you that it hath hated me odio habuit. before you. 18. Having exhorted them to mutual love, He now fortifies them against the hatred of the world and the persecutions that awaited them. The world, as is plain, is the wicked world, and in being hated by it they shall only be treading in the footsteps of their Master. *It hath hated.* The Greek perfect implies not merely a passing manifestation of hatred, but an abiding and persistent feeling. 19. Si de mundo fuissetis, 19. If you had been of the mundus quod suum erat world, the world would love diligeret: quia vero de mundo its own: but because you are non estis, sed ego elegi vos not of the world, but I have de mundo propterea odit vos chosen you out of the world, mundus. therefore the world hateth you. 19. *If you had been*, ought rather to be: if you were. The five‐fold repetition of “the world” in this verse brings vividly before us this great antagonist of Christ. 20. Mementote sermonis mei, 20. Remember my word that I quem ego dixi vobis: Non est said to you: The servant is servus maior domino suo. Si me not greater than his master. persecuti sunt, et vos If they have persecuted me, persequentur: si sermonem meum they will also persecute you: servaverunt, et vestrum if they have kept my word, servabunt. they will keep yours also. 20. He now reminds them of what He had told them before (xiii. 16) that: “a servant is not greater than his master,” and from this He goes on to signify what they must expect to meet with from the world. *If they have kept my word.* Some think there is reference to those who having been of the world came out from it to follow Christ and keep His word. But it appears more probable that He speaks of those who are still of the world, and leaves it to be supplied that since they had not kept His word, so neither would they keep that of the Apostles. By the word of the Apostles is meant the word of Christ as preached by them. 21. Sed haec omnia facient 21. But all these things they vobis propter nomen meum: quia will do to you for my name’s nesciunt eum qui misit me. sake: because they know not him that sent me.