“"I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil." Again He simplifieth His language; again He rendereth it more clear; which is the act of one showing, by making entreaty for them with exactness, nothing else but this, that He hath a very tender care for them…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Gospel of John 82
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15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
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13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
— John 17:15 —
16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.