turns to His disciples, He can say, using the same Greek preposition, ‘If ye were of the world (ek tou kosmos), the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you’ (John 15:19). Here we have the same expression, ‘not of the world,’ but in addition we have another and more forceful expression, ‘I have chosen you out of the world.’ In this latter instance there is a double emphasis. As before there is an ek, ‘out of,’