Matthew Poole and continuators on John 17:23

23 I in them , and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one , and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me z.

I in them, not onely as my Divine Nature is united [illegible: 1 letter]o their fles[illegible: 1 letter], but as I have made them partakers of my Spirit, and of the Divine Nature; as I have loved them with a special and peculiar love, and am the head, they the Members; I the Vine, they the Branches:

that they may be made perfect in one, (the Greek is, [non-Latin text not transcribed] into one) In one body, whereof Christ is the Head; which body is the Church, keeping an unity of faith; All believing the same things in matter of faith, and those things no other than what thou hast revealed, and I have revealed as from thee.

and thou in me, the fulness of the Godhead dwelling in me bodily; I being the brightness of thy glory, the express image of thy Person. Thou also doing whatsoever I do, and accepting and approving of it, as Chap. 14.10.

This, O Father! will be a great evidence, b[illegible: 1 letter]th that thou hast sent me, when the World shall see thee bowing mens hearts to the obedience of the truth of thy Gospel, and that thou hast loved them with a tender and everlasting love, as thou hast loved me.