Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I kept—guarded.
them in thy name—acting as Thy Representative on earth.
none of them is lost, but the son of perdition—It is not implied here that the son of perdition was one of those whom the Father had given to the Son, but rather the contrary (John 13:18) [WEBSTER and WILKINSON]. It is just as in Luke 4:26-27, where we are not to suppose that the woman of Sarepta (in Sidon) was one of the widows of Israel, nor Naaman the Syrian one of the lepers in Israel, though the language—the same as here—might seem to express it.
son of perdition—doomed to it (II Thessalonians 2:3; Mark 14:21).
I pray for them—not as individuals merely, but as representatives of all such in every succeeding age (see on John 17:20).
not for the world—for they had been given Him "out of the world" (John 17:6), and had been already transformed into the very opposite of it. The things sought for them, indeed, are applicable only to such.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 17:12:
Isaiah 8:18
Jeremiah 23:3-4
Jeremiah 33:13
John 17:4-5
John 18:9
Romans 8:34
Ephesians 2:3
2 Thessalonians 2:3
1 Peter 1:4
Revelation 17:11
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