Mazmur 37:28
Konteks37:28 For the Lord promotes 1 justice,
and never abandons 2 his faithful followers.
They are permanently secure, 3
but the children 4 of evil men are wiped out. 5
Yohanes 17:12
Konteks17:12 When I was with them I kept them safe 6 and watched over them 7 in your name 8 that you have given me. Not one 9 of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, 10 so that the scripture could be fulfilled. 11
[37:28] 1 tn Heb “loves.” The verb “loves” is here metonymic; the
[37:28] 2 tn The imperfect verbal form draws attention to this generalizing statement.
[37:28] 3 tn Or “protected forever.”
[37:28] 4 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
[37:28] 5 tn Or “cut off”; or “removed.” The perfect verbal forms in v. 28b state general truths.
[17:12] 6 tn Or “I protected them”; Grk “I kept them.”
[17:12] 7 tn Grk “and guarded them.”
[17:12] 8 tn Or “by your name.”
[17:12] 9 tn Grk And not one.” The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.
[17:12] 10 tn Grk “the son of destruction” (a Semitic idiom for one appointed for destruction; here it is a reference to Judas).
[17:12] sn The one destined to destruction refers to Judas. Clearly in John’s Gospel Judas is portrayed as a tool of Satan. He is described as “the devil” in 6:70. In 13:2 Satan put into Judas’ heart the idea of betraying Jesus, and 13:27 Satan himself entered Judas. Immediately after this Judas left the company of Jesus and the other disciples and went out into the realm of darkness (13:30). Cf. 2 Thess 2:3, where this same Greek phrase (“the son of destruction”; see tn above) is used to describe the man through whom Satan acts to rebel against God in the last days.
[17:12] 11 sn A possible allusion to Ps 41:9 or Prov 24:22 LXX. The exact passage is not specified here, but in John 13:18, Ps 41:9 is explicitly quoted by Jesus with reference to the traitor, suggesting that this is the passage to which Jesus refers here. The previous mention of Ps 41:9 in John 13:18 probably explains why the author felt no need for an explanatory parenthetical note here. It is also possible that the passage referred to here is Prov 24:22 LXX, where in the Greek text the phrase “son of destruction” appears.