My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Ver. 29. No man is able to pluck them] Impostors seek to thrust us from God, Deuteronomy 13:5, and to drag disciples after them, with such violence, as if they would pluck them limb meal (as the word αποσπαν signifies, Act 20:30), so to deceive, if it were possible, the very elect, Matthew 24:24. A thing is said to be possible, vel respectu Dei, vel respectu rei, either to honour God or to honour a thing. True grace, in itself considered, is easily separable from him that hath it, who, left to himself also, would soon lose it. But with respect to God, by whose power the saints are kept (as in a strong guard or garrison, φρουρουμενοι, 1Pe 1:5), through faith unto salvation, it is impossible that any of his should finally miscarry.