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Doctrine of Atonement
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; . . . Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. . . . And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Just before the events leading to his crucifixion, Christ Jesus moves from instructing and comforting his disciples to praying directly to God. “By positioning Jesus’s last words as a prayer,” writes a scholar, “the Fourth Evangelist makes it possible for all generations of believers to hear and experience the love that Jesus and God have for them. . . . This prayer points the faith community toward a future . . . in which the experience of God’s love for them is realized.”
“Thy name” refers to God’s identity and character rather than to a title for Him. It is this divine nature, revealed throughout Jesus’ ministry, that ensures our oneness with Him.
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Resources quoted in this issue
RR: Keck, Leander E., et al., eds. The New Interpreter’s Bible Commentary. Vol. 8, Luke, John. Nashville: Abingdon, 2015.
Cit. 1: Barclay, William. The Daily Study Bible: The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew, 1955. Revised and updated by Saint Andrew, 2001. Reprinted as The New Daily Study Bible: The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2001–04.
Cit. 2: Perowne, John J.S., Alexander F. Kirkpatrick, Frederic H. Chase, Reginald St. John Parry, and Alexander Nairne, eds. The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. 58 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1882–1922. Also available at biblehub.com/commentaries.
Cit. 10: Keck, Leander E., et al., eds. The New Interpreter’s Bible Commentary. Vol. 8, Luke, John. Nashville: Abingdon, 2015; Barker, Kenneth, et al., eds. The NIV Study Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1995.
Cit. 11: Barclay, William. The Daily Study Bible: The Gospel of John, Vol. 2. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew, 1955. Revised and updated by Saint Andrew, 2001. Reprinted as The New Daily Study Bible: The Gospel of John, Vol. 2. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2001–04.
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