While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name - `I preserved them from defection through the revelation to their souls of that "grace and truth" of Thine which, whenever they were staggered and ready to give way, held them fast.'
Those that thou gavest me I have kept - `Those whom Thou hast given Me I kept,' or 'guarded' х dedookas (G1325) ... efulaxa (G5442)], And none ('not one') of them is lost, but the son of perdition. If we take the expressions, "children of this world," "child of the devil," "the man of sin," "children of light," "children of Zion," to mean men who have in them the nature of the things mentioned as their proper character, then, "the son of perdition" must mean 'he who not only is doomed to, but has the materials of perdition already in his character.' So we are to understand the expression "children of wrath" (Ephesians 2:3).
That the Scripture might be fulfilled (Psalms 69:25; Psalms 109:8; Acts 1:16; Acts 1:20). The phrase 'not one but (or 'but only') the son of perdition' х ei (G1487) mee (G3361)] is used in the same sense as in Luke 4:26-27 (on which see). 'It is not implied,' as Webster and Wilkinson correctly observe, 'that Judas was one of those whom the Father had given to the Son, but rather the contrary. See John 13:18.'