and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;John 17:3 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThis is life eternal - The salvation purchased by Christ, and given to them who believe, is called life:
1. Because the life of man was forfeited to Divine justice; and the sacrifice of Christ redeemed him from that death to which he was exposed.
2. Because the souls of men were dead in trespasses and sins; and Christ quickens them by his word and Spirit.
3. Because men who are not saved by the grace of Christ do not live, they only exist, no good purpose of life being answered by them. But when they receive this salvation they live - answer all the Divine purposes, are happy in themselves, useful to each other, and bring glory to God.
4. It is called eternal life to show that it reaches beyond the limits of time, and that it necessarily implies -
1. The immortality of the soul;
2. the resurrection of the body; and
3. that it is never to end, hence called αιωνιος ζωη, a life ever living; from αει, always, and ων, being or existence. And indeed no words can more forcibly convey the idea of eternity than these. It is called ἡ αιωνιος ζωη, That eternal life, by way of eminence. There may be an eternal existence without blessedness; but this is that eternal life with which infinite happiness is inseparably connected.
The only true God - The way to attain this eternal life is to acknowledge, worship, and obey, the one only true God, and to accept as teacher, sacrifice, and Savior, the Lord Jesus, the one and only true Messiah. Bishop Pearce's remark here is well worthy the reader's attention: -
"What is said here of the only true God seems said in opposition to the gods whom the heathens worshipped; not in opposition to Jesus Christ himself, who is called the true God by John, in 1 John 5:20."
The words in this verse have been variously translated:
1. That they might acknowledge thee, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent, to be the only true God.
2. That they might acknowledge thee, the only true God, and Jesus, whom thou hast sent, to be the Christ or Messiah.
3. That they might acknowledge thee to be the only true God, and Jesus Christ to be him whom thou hast sent. And all these translations the original will bear.
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John 17:25 O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.
John 8:19,54,55 Then said they to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know me, nor my Father: if you had known me...
1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind...
Psalm 9:10 And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.
Isaiah 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many...
Jeremiah 9:23,24 Thus said the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might...
Jeremiah 31:33,34 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, said the LORD...
Hosea 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come to us as the rain...
1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts...
2 Thessalonians 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Hebrews 8:11,12 And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me...
1 John 4:6 We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth...
1 John 5:11,20 And this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son...
the only.
John 14:9,10 Jesus said to him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you not known me, Philip? he that has seen me has seen the Father...
2 Chronicles 15:3 Now for a long season Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble...
1 Corinthians 8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world...
1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had to you...
1 Timothy 6:15,16 Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords...
1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true...
and Jesus.
John 3:17,34 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved...
John 5:36,37 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do...
John 6:27-29,57 Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give to you...
John 7:29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he has sent me.
John 10:36 Say you of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the world, You blaspheme; because I said, I am the Son of God?
John 11:42 And I knew that you hear me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that you have sent me.
John 12:49,50 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak...
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things...
Isaiah 48:16 Come you near to me, hear you this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I...
Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek...
Mark 9:37 Whoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receives me: and whoever shall receive me, receives not me...
Luke 9:48 And said to them, Whoever shall receive this child in my name receives me: and whoever shall receive me receives him that sent me...
1 John 4:14,15 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world...
1 John 5:11,12 And this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son...
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