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The second promise is, “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). Here again we have two negatives before the verb: “I will not, I will not cast out.” The words “cast out” are from one word made up of two words, the word “to throw” and a preposition meaning “out from within.” That is, our Lord is speaking of those who are in salvation, in the Father’s house. He gives us a double-strength promise that He will not throw us out of that house. But there is another word in the Greek which does not appear in the English, the word “outside.” Literally, the promise reads, “The one who comes to Me, I will not, I will not throw out into the outside.” Imagine a heavenly Father throwing His own child out. That is exactly what the Greek word means. This word “outside” is found in Revelation 22:15, where it is translated “without.” The New Jerusalem is spoken of in the previous verse, but “without,” that is, “outside, are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.” We have the solemn promise of our Lord that the Christian will never be ejected from the Father’s house and thrown into the outside where those are who have rejected His grace.
The third is, “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you” (John 15:7). The words, “ye shall ask,” are in the you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto V 19, p 27 imperative mood, which makes them a command, and are to be taken in the sense of “I command you to ask.” “Abiding” implies fellowship with the Lord, “nothing between myself and my Saviour,” and dependence upon Him. To those who thus abide, God issues the gracious command, “ask whatever ye desire.” It is more than a command. It is a challenge. It is as if God said, “You meet the conditions, and I challenge you to ask, and then see how faithful and able I am to answer your prayer.” The word “desire” implies a desire that proceeds, not from deliberate forethought, but from inclination. This is a perfectly safe command and promise, because when we live in close fellowship with Jesus, our desires and our inclinations are His desires and His inclinations. The word “ask” is in the middle voice which speaks of the subject of the verb acting in its own interest. Therefore we translate, “ask for yourselves.” But as we live in intimate fellowship with Jesus, those things which we ask for ourselves, we ask, not for the purpose of gratifying a selfish desire, but for the purpose of glorifying Him. Prayers of that kind are answered
Kenneth S. Wuest, Wuest’s Word Studies from the Greek New Testament: For the English Reader, vol. 19 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997), 26–27.
John 6:37 Πᾶν ὃ δίδωσίν μοι ὁ πατὴρ πρὸς ἐμὲ ἥξει, καὶ τὸν ἐρχόμενον πρός με οὐ μὴ ἐκβάλω ἔξω,
Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort, The New Testament in the Original Greek (Logos Bible Software, 2009), Jn 6:37.
| 37 | All | that | which | the | Father | giveth | me | shall | come | unto | ||||||||||||
| πᾶν1 | → | ὃ2 | ὁ5 | πατὴρ6 | δίδωσίν3 | μοι4 | → | ἥξει9 | πρὸς7 | |||||||||||||
| πᾶς | ὅς | ὁ | πατήρ | δίδωμι | ἐγώ | ἥκω | πρός | |||||||||||||||
| JNSN JASN | RR-ASN | DNSM | NNSM | VPAI3S | RP1DS | VFAI3S | P | |||||||||||||||
| 3956 | 3739 | 3588 | 3962 | 1325 | 3427 | 2240 | 4314 | |||||||||||||||
| 59.24 | 92.27 | 92.24 | 12.12 | 57.71 | 92.1 | 15.84 | 84.18 |
| me | ; | and | him | that | cometh | to | me | I | will | in | no | wise | |||||||||||
| ἐμὲ8 | καὶ10 | τὸν11 | → | ἐρχόμενον12 | πρός13 | με14 | → | ►17 | οὐ15 μὴ16 | ← | ← | ||||||||||||
| ἐγώ | καί | ὁ | ἔρχομαι | πρός | ἐγώ | οὐ μή | |||||||||||||||||
| RP1AS | CLN | DASM | VPUP-SAM | P | RP1AS | BN TN BN TN | |||||||||||||||||
| 1691 | 2532 | 3588 | 2064 | 4314 | 1691 | 3756 3361 | |||||||||||||||||
| 92.1 | 89.87 | 92.24 | 15.81 | 84.18 | 92.1 | 69.5 69.5 |
| cast | out | |
| ἐκβάλω17 ἔξω18 | ← | |
| ἐκβάλλω ἔξω | ||
| VAAS1S BP | ||
| 1544 1854 | ||
| 15.220 84.27 |
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