They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
They are not of the world. He repeats what He had said before about the world, to show why the Father should care for and protect them, viz, because they had left the world, and given themselves wholly to the worship and protection of Christ.
