Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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.
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