Matthew Poole and continuators on John 13:18

18 I speak not of you all, I know whom I have chosen : but that the scripture may be fulfilled He that eateth bread with me, hath lift up his heel against me.

I am about to tell you what will make your ears tingle; but be of good comfort, what I shall now tell you, doth not concern all of you, it concerneth but one man amongst you.

I know whom I have chosen to the work of the Apostleship: so some interpret it, as Chap. 6.70 Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a Devil? But the generality of the best Interpreters understand the choosing here mentioned, of a choosing to Eternal Life, and perseverance in the way of God as a means in order to it, as Eph. 1.4. and so understood, here is a greater argument in this Text to prove the Godhead of Christ, as the Author of Eternal Election: tho one of you be a Devil, a Traytor, yet I have chosen the rest of you to Eternal Life: and this is no more than was Prophecied of me, and fulfilled in David as a Type of me: the Scripture must have its accomplishment: that Scripture is now fulfilled in me.

Marginal references: Psal. 41.9. Matth. 26.2[illegible: 1 letter].