I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
38. I speak what I have seen with my Father. He had already made frequent mention of his Father; and now, by an argument drawn from contrary things, he infers that they are enemies to God, and are the children of the devil, because they oppose his doctrine. “For my part,” says he, “I bring nothing forward, but what I have learned from my Father.
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
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