Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world—(See John 15:18-19). This is reiterated here, to pave the way for the prayer which follows.
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world—for that, though it would secure their own safety, would leave the world unblessed by their testimony.
but . . . keep them from the evil—all evil in and of the world.
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