πάτερ ἅγιε. The expression occurs here only; but comp. Revelation 6:10; 1 John 2:20 and John 17:25. The epithet agrees with the prayer ἁγίασον αὐτούς (John 17:17), ἵνα ὦσιν καὶ αὐτοὶ ἡγιασμένοι (John 17:19). God has given His name (see on John 1:12) to Christ to reveal to His disciples; and Christ here prays that they may be kept true to that revelation of the Divine character. And even as (καθώς) the Father and Son are one in the possession of the Divine nature, so the disciples are to be kept one by the knowledge of it. Comp. Revelation 2:17; Revelation 22:4.

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