He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
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
Ye are from beneath; I am from above--contrasting Himself, not as in Joh 3:31, simply with earthborn messengers of God, but with men sprung from and breathing an opposite element from His, which rendered it impossible that He and they should have any present fellowship, or dwell eternally together. (Again see on Joh 7:33; also see on Joh 8:44).
Your talk of self-murder shows you are earthly and corrupt in your views, governed by the mad passions of men. My views are heavenly; yours cannot rise above what is sensual and base. Wicked men interpret all things in a low sense and suppose all others are ruled as they are themselves.
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