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John 17:10

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10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

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Explanation of John 17

By Rev. John Clowes M.A.

Explaining the Inner Meaning of John 17

Verse 17:1. That the Lord, perceiving from his divine truth, that his Humanity was in a state capable of being fully united to his Divinity, is led from his divine love to desire that union.

Verse 17:2. That thus he might be the God of heaven and earth, and communicate his divine love and wisdom to all who were prepared to receive.

Verses 17:3, 4. Which divine love and wisdom consist in the heart-felt acknowledgement, that in the Lord, God is Man, and Man God, in One Divine Person, and that by and through the Manhood, of Humanity, the eternal Godhead, or Divinity, is made known in the church, and the great work of man's redemption completed.

Verses 17:5, 6. Which work required that the Divinity and Humanity should be made eternally one, as the divine love and divine wisdom are eternally one, and that thus mankind should become acquainted with the nature of that worship which the divinity requires, and should transfer all worship from the invisible Divinity to the visible Divine Humanity, living according to his precepts.

Verses 17:7, 8. And acknowledging that in the Divine Humanity are contained all things of the Divinity, and that through and by the Divine Humanity is communicated divine love and divine wisdom to such as can receive it, who are thus taught that the Humanity is from the Divinity, and that a right faith consists in so believing.

Verses 17:9, 10. Because through the Lord's Divine Humanity they have continual access to the divine good, which otherwise they could not have, and thus are convinced that the union of the Divinity and Humanity is reciprocal, and that the Divine Humanity, through that union, is all in all in heaven and in the church.

Verses 17:11, 12. Imparting the good of heavenly love and life to all who desire it, that they also may have reciprocal conjunction with the Humanity, as the humanity has reciprocal union with the Divinity, and may thus be preserved from evils and falsities, according to prediction.

Verses 17:13, 14, 15, 16. And through the eternal truth may attain conjunction with heavenly good, and thus be admitted into spiritual temptations, which are permitted for final purification and deliverance from evil, in like manner as the Lord by temptation-combats made his humanity divine.

Verses 17:17, 18, 19. For the eternal truth, or the Word, is the only medium of man's purification, and therefore all, who receive the truth, pass through a similar process of purification and trial with the Lord himself, and as he thereby glorified or made divine his humanity, in like manner they become spiritual, and are regenerated.

Verses 17:20, 21, 22, 23. For the divine love is willing to draw all to itself, and therefore the end of the Lord's glorification of his humanity was, that he might gift mankind with intelligence and wisdom, and thus lead them to conjunction of life and love with himself in every process of their purification and regeneration.

Verses 17:24, 25, 26. And that thus they might live perpetually in the light of the divine presence, and be made sensible of the divine love, and by the acknowledgement of the reciprocal union of the Divinity and Humanity, might no longer remain in evil and error, but attain to eternal conjunction with the Lord, in love and in truth.

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John 17:22

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22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: