ἀλλά. But, to return (to John 16:1), these things have I spoken to you (John 16:1; John 16:4; John 16:6 must be rendered alike), that when their hour (the hour appointed for these things; John 16:2) is come, ye may remember them, how that I told you, Ἐγώ is emphatic, ‘I Myself, the object of your faith.’

ἐξ�. Here and John 6:64 only: it expresses consequence and continuity, whereas ἀπ' ἀρχῆς (John 15:27) expresses simple departure. And these things I told you not from the beginning. There is no inconsistency between this statement and passages like Matthew 10:16-39; Matthew 24:9; Luke 6:22 : ταῦτα covers not only the prediction of persecutions, but the explanation of them, and the promise of the Paraclete, &c. All this was new. While He was with them to explain and exhort, they did not need these truths.

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