Matthew Poole and continuators on John 15:25

25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law , They hated me without a cause.

The particle [that] here again denoteth not the final cause, but onely the consequent; and the Law here signifieth not strictly the Law of Moses, but the whole Scripture, (in which sense we have once and again met with the term) saith our Saviour, This is no more than was Prophecied of me, by the Prophet David; or no more than was fulfilled in me, being first done to David as my Type, which also hath the force of another Argument to uphold, and incourage his Disciples under their sufferings; that they were but the fulfilling of Prophecies, no more than was foretold in holy Writ.

Marginal references: Psal. 35.19. and 69.4.