...voluntarily offered himself to die. " Sanctify " them," he says,* " through thy truth : thy word is " is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, " even so have I also sent them into the world. And " for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also " might be sanctified through the truth." Christ's...

...before employed nearly the same phrase to describe both his own mission, and that of his apostles : " As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world." (John xvii. 18.) It is of more importance to notice, in passing, that the occasion of his declaring...

...much better abode," says Dr. Doddridge. But how wi!l this interpretation apply to John xvii. 1 8, " As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world." ' To be sent into the world' is to be invested with a divine commission: ' 10 come into the world*...

...keep through thine " own name those whom Thou hast given *c mo, that they may be one, as we are. ** As Thou hast sent me into the world, " even so have I...sent them into the " world. Neither pray I for these (my '* Apostles) alone, but for them also who " shall believe on me through their word. ." That they...

...world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth : thy word is truth. 1'8 As thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20...

...therefore conclude he did not go himself. • Christ, speaking of his disciples, says to his Father, "As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world." But in this account of Christ's preachir.g, it does not say, he sent and preached to the spirits in...

...creature who was thus under the continual guidance of God. * John xvii. 18 : As thou (O Father,} has sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. Observe here, that in our Saviour's account, and by his own interpretation, to be sent into the world...

...the civil temn. When the marvelous prayer of the departing Lord — " They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world ; sanctify them through thy truth : thy word is truth " — and the high and holy character which should pertain to the officers of the Church of...

...out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the Avorld, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy...world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. CHAP....

...ministry on earth had ceased, be transferred to the Apostles the commission be had received ; '' as " thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent " them into the world." Jo. xvii. 18. '•" As my Father hath " sent me, even so send I you." Jo. xx.21, and gave them, probably...