Henceforth I call you not servants;— "Though the distance that is between you and me, and your obligations to obey me, might have warranted me to treat you as servants, and particularly to conceal from you my counsels and designs, I have not acted in this manner towards you; but I have treated you as friends use to be treated. I have admitted you into all the familiarities of friendship; for I have communicated to you, as far as was convenient, and as much as in your present circumstances you could bear, the most important of those gracious councils, which my Father has imparted unto me his eternal Son and most intimate counsellor. Nay, I have commissioned you to reveal them to the world, and have made you not only my friends, but my assistants in the great work of saving the world. From this consideration therefore, as well as out of gratitude to me, you ought to lay down your lives in the cause." See the next note.
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John 15:15
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.