Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word.
Amid the blazing golden lamps of the treasury at tabernacles, when all Jerusalem danced in joy, Christ proclaims in the most absolute sense: I am the Light of the World. The Baptist was a burning lamp sent to witness to that Light; but He alone is the true Light that lightens every man coming into the world, the Messiah promised of old.
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Commenting on John 8:12-59
Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word. (k) Or, language: as though he said, "You do not understand what I say any more than if I spoke in a strange and unknown language to you."
I speak what I have seen with my Father, not hearsay, not hypothesis, but the exact counterpart of eternal truth itself. You do what you have seen with your father; and since there are but two families in this world, God's and the devil's, your works declare your parentage as plainly as mine declares mine.
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Commenting on John 8:38-47