Joh 17:25 | RWP | e4.org | O righteous Father ( Πατηρ δικαιε ). Nominative form with πατηρ used as vocative (cf. ), but vocative form δικαιε . Then the righteousness of God is appealed to like God's holiness in verse . The world ( κα ο κοσμος ). The translations usually slur over the κα as untranslatable in English. Westcott suggests "while" as a sort of correlative. It is quite possible that here κα is almost concessive like "though" and δε =yet: "though the world did not know thee, yet I knew thee, and these knew thee." See Robertson, Grammar , p. 1182 for και--δε--κα and various other uses of κα in John's Gospel.

‏ John 17:25

O righteous Father ( Πατηρ δικαιε ). Nominative form with πατηρ used as vocative (cf. Joh 20:28), but vocative form δικαιε. Then the righteousness of God is appealed to like God's holiness in verse 11.

The world ( κα ο κοσμος ). The translations usually slur over the κα as untranslatable in English. Westcott suggests "while" as a sort of correlative. It is quite possible that here κα is almost concessive like "though" and δε =yet: "though the world did not know thee, yet I knew thee, and these knew thee." See Robertson, Grammar, p. 1182 for και--δε--κα and various other uses of κα in John's Gospel.