Annotations upon all the New Testament philologicall and theologicall wherein the emphasis and elegancie of the Greeke is observed, some imperfections in our translation are discovered, divers Jewish rites and customes tending to illustrate the text are mentioned, many antilogies and seeming contradictions reconciled, severall darke and obscure places opened, sundry passages vindicated from the false glosses of papists and hereticks / by Edward Leigh ...

CHAP. XVII.

THis Chapter is an Epitome of that intercession which Christs makes in heaven for his people, for though the prayer here was in the time of his humiliation; yet the matter of it belongs to his State of glory.* 1.1

Vers. 3. This is life eternall] By eternall life understand grace by a metonymie of the effect, quia vitam efficit. Piscat. It workes life, quia radix & origo vitae, because it is the roote and originall of our life. Cyrill. Gustus vitae aeternae, the tast of eternall life. Brentius.

That they might know] That is, beleeve in.

* 1.2Thee the onely true God] Hence the Arrians inferred that the Son was not true God, and the Macedonians, that the Holy Ghost was not true God. The exclusive word only here doth not exclude the Son and the Holy Ghost, but Idoles and false Gods. See Rom. 9.5.

Vers. 9. I pray for them, I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given mee] Our Saviour prayed for those onely that his Father had given him,* 1.3 and for those whom hereafter he should give unto him. v. 20. And that with exclusion from the world, as here, and for their sakes he sanctified himselfe. v. 19. Which in like manner is to be un∣derstood with exclusion of the world. Now by sanctifying himselfe, is understood the offering up of himselfe upon the Crosse, by the unanimous consent of all the Fa∣thers whom Marlorate had read, as himselfe professeth in his commentaries on that passage in Iohn. And he had seen very many as there he signifieth, viz. Chrysostome, Cyrill, Augustine, Leontius, Beda, Theophylact, Euthymius, Rupertus.

Vers. 10. All mine] All that I make intercession for, and am to redeeme, that are to have benefit by mee, are thine] Thine elect and chosen people, and thine are mine] All thine elect shall have benefit by mee, and, I am glorified in them] The glory and honour that I have in the world, is in and by them, and them onely.

Vers. 11. That they may be one as we are] The unity of the will is common to all v. 20.21.* 1.4

Vers. 13. These things I speake in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in them∣selves] That is, I have made this prayer in the world, and left a record and pattern of it in the Church, that they feeling the same heavenly desires kindled in their owne hearts, may be comforted in the workings of that Spirit of prayer in them, which testifieth to their soules the quality of that intercession which I shall make for them in heaven. Dr. Reynolds on 110. Psal. 4. p. 437. See him ibid on verses 5, 6. p. 491.

Vers. 19. I sanctifie my selfe] In this Chapter where he refused to pray for all, hee professeth that he sanctified himselfe for their sakes for whom he prayed;* 1.5 now this san∣ctifying * 1.6 of himselfe was unto his death and passion by the unanimous consent of all the Fathers, as Maldonate acknowledgeth; therefore Christ died not for all and every man.

Notes

• * 1.1

  That is, the cause and be∣ginning of life eternall.
• * 1.2

  v. 4. See Dr. Reynolds, the life of Christ. p. 420.
• * 1.3

  Oravit & pro mundo, ut resi¦pisceret & ve∣niam acciperet peccatorum. Luc. 23.34. Imo & mox ut credat 21. Sed haec quae nunc orat, de pro∣tectione pater∣na, de spiritu, de concordiâ, non nisi ad credentes pertinent. Grotius. Vide plura ibid.
• * 1.4

  Vers. 12. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 distne••a••ura a 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, ita ut 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 referatur ad conservationem in bono, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ad praeservationem à malo, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ad media 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ad finem: qui enim ab exitio praeservari debent, filios oportet in vera Dei agnitione & fide servari. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ad Christi fide∣litatem, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ad ipsius diligentiam. Gerh. Her.
• * 1.5

  Sanctifie here is not to make holy, and purge from fi••thine••se, but to separate himselfe to all that worke hee undertook.
• * 1.6

  Dr. Twisse. That is, he offered himselfe a sacrifice as the place is expounded by Cyrill and Chrysostome, or consecrated himselfe to be a sacrifice. Vide Bezam. & Grotium. Christ was Priest, Altar and Sacrifice, Sacrifice in his humane nature, Altar in the Divine, and Priest in both.