15. Non rogo ut tollas eos de 15. I pray not that thou mundo, sed ut serves eos a shouldst take them out of the malo. world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil. 15. *From evil* (ἐκ τοῦ πονηροῦ). This may refer to the evil of the wicked world which is sin, or to the devil, the _evil one_. The parallel passage in 1 John v. 18, 19 favours the latter view. These words, to which the Apostles were listening, gave them to know that they must not despair, and wish to quit the world when trials should come; but rather, remaining in the world, keep themselves unspotted from its defilements. 16. De mundo non sunt, sicut 16. They are not of the world: et ego non sum de mundo. as I also am not of the world. 16. The last clause of verse 14 is repeated as the ground of another petition, namely, that the Father may “sanctify” them. In order to emphasize the point in their hearing, and also as a motive why God ought to hear the petition that follows, the fact that the Apostles are not men of the world is repeated and insisted upon by Christ. 17. Sanctifica eos in 17. Sanctify them in truth. veritate. Sermo tuus veritas Thy word is truth. est. 17. *In the truth*, is the correct reading; not “in _thy_ truth,” nor “in truth.” The word in which they are to be sanctified is probably the word of God, which Christ had preached, and which is referred to in the end of the verse: “Thy word is truth;” and not, as Mald. holds, the real sanctification of the New Law as opposed to the typical and merely external sanctification by which the priests of the Old Law were set apart for their functions. In the Gospel, then, and for the preaching of the Gospel Christ prays that the Apostles may be sanctified. But what does the word “sanctify” here mean? Sometimes the word ἁγιάζειν signifies to make holy, or to make more holy, or to keep more holy (1 Cor. vii. 11; 1 Thess. v. 23); at other times, it means to set apart or destine for an office; and in this sense it is generally used throughout the Old Testament. Both senses are probably combined in the word here, for it was by making and keeping them holy that the Apostles were to be efficaciously set apart by the Father for the sacred mission to which Christ had already called them. 18. Sicut tu me misisti in 18. As thou hast sent me into mundum, et ego misi eos in the world, I also have sent mundum. them into the world. 18. This verse shows that the sanctification is prayed for especially with a view to their mission as Apostles. *Have sent* (Greek “did send”) is used proleptically, for the Apostles had not yet received their mission to the _Gentile_ world. See John xx. 21; Matthew xxviii. 18, 19; Mark xvi. 15.