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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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
To the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. By whom we may understand his apostles and disciples. They were thine, and also mine, as I am God. See ver. 10.
And to me thou gavest them, inasmuch as I am become man, their Saviour, their Redeemer (Witham)
Had then the Father any thing which the Son had not? By no means. But Christ, as Son of God, had from eternity what he had not as Son of man; because he had not yet taken flesh of his virgin mother. All that he had as God, he attributes to his Father. (St. Augustine, tract. 106. in Joan.)
