Cannot hate (ου δυνατα μισειν). Because of "the law of moral correspondence" (Westcott), often in John for "inherent impossibility…

The world cannot hate you. You profess no principles in opposition to the world. You do not excite its envy or rouse the civil rulers agai…

The world cannot hate you.—Because they were of the world. To have hated them would have been to have hated itself .

Then Jesus said to them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify o…

St. Augustine of Hippo: As the believer in Christ would in time have to hide from persecution, so that no guilt might attach to …

Again Jesus asserted that he did not belong to this world. The world regarded him as an alien and an antagonist because he condemned its evil works…

The world cannot hate you. When He says that the world cannot hate them, He reproves them for being entirely carnal; for peace wi…

The world cannot hate you
Because they were of the world, belonged to it; they were like to it, and every like loves…

The brothers or kinsmen of Jesus were disgusted when they found there was no prospect of worldly advantages from him. Ungodly men sometimes underta…

1. After our Lord considered the spiritual life and its food, He now discu es His instruction or teaching, which, as mentioned above, is nec…