I have manifested your name unto the men that you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them to me; and they have kept your word.
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Bede
AD 735
And they have kept your word. He calls Himself the Word of the Father, because the Father by Him created all things, and because He contains in Himself all words: as if to say, they have committed Me to memory so well, that they never will forget Me. Or, they have kept your word, i.e. in that they have believed in Me: as it follows, now they have known that all things whatsoever You have given Me, are of You. Some read, now I have known but this cannot be correct. For how could the Son be ignorant of what was the Father’s? It is the disciples He is speaking of; as if to say, they have learned that there is nothing in Me alien from You, and that whatever I teach comes from You.
