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Gill's Exposition
If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love,.... Not that their continuance in the heart's love and affection of Christ depended upon their observation of his commands; for as the keeping of…
Barnes' Notes
As the Father hath loved me - The love of the Father toward his only-begotten Son is the highest affection of which we can conceive. Compare Mat 3:17; Mat 17:5. It is the love of God toward his…
Christ, who is love itself, is here discoursing concerning love, a fourfold love.
I. Concerning the Father's love to him; and concerning this he here tells us, 1. That the Father did love him (Joh…
Cambridge Bible
As the Father, &c.) The Greek construction is ambiguous. It would be quite possible to translate, Even as the Fatherloved Meand I loved you, abide in My love. But our version is better as keeping in…
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