John 15:23 — ExegesisTAB

The sentence opens with ho {ὁ | ho} ‘the one’, a substantival article that gives the clause a general, gnomic force. The direct placement of eme {ἐμέ | emé} ‘Me’ before mison {μισῶν | misōn} ‘hating’ pushes the Son to the front of the accusation, making Him the immediate focus of hostility. The repeated mis- root in mison and misei {μισεῖ | misei} ‘hates’ creates tight lexical parallelism, so the two clauses are not separate ideas but one linked response. Kai {καὶ | kai} ‘and’ simply joins the clauses without contrast, and ton patera mou {τὸν πατέρα μου | ton patera mou} ‘My Father’ parallels eme, showing that the hostility aimed at the Son necessarily reaches the Father as well. Because English does not naturally preserve the Greek participial opening, a generic subject plus a relative-style clause best conveys the broad principle and the force of the double statement.