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p xvi. 8-11. 46. τίς ἐξ ὑμῶν 5 ἐλέγχει µε περὶ ἁμαρτίας ; Stati ὑμεῖς οὐ πιστεύετέ jor ;
εἰ δὲ ἀλήθειαν λέγω, 47. ὁ ὢν ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ τὰ ῥήματα τοῦ
Θεοῦ ἀκούει' διὰ τοῦτο ὑμεῖς οὐκ ἀκούετε, ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ οὐκ
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ἐστέ.
q Vii. 20. r Deut.
48. ᾽Απεκρίθησαν οὖν οἱ ᾿Ιουδαῖοι καὶ εἶπον αὐτῷ, “Ob καλῶς λέγομεν ἡμεῖς, ὅτι Σαµαρείτης ef σὺ, καὶ ἃ δαιµόνιον ἔχεις ; ”
xxvii. 16. 49. ᾽᾿Απεκρίθη ᾿Ιησοῦς, ''᾿Εγὼ δαιµόνιον οὐκ ἔχω, ἀλλὰ τιμῶ τὸν
Ῥτον.
xxviii. 7, πατέρα µου, καὶ ὑμεῖς ” ἀτιμάζετέ µε.
etc. Rom.
ii. 23. πχ. CLs
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ερ. ver. 5 and Ps. Ixxxix. 48. A τσ
t 1 Sam. xv, δαιμόνιον ἔχεις.
Kars » σιωνα.
Lk. δόξαν µου ἔστιν 6 [ητῶν καὶ κρίνων.
5ο. ἐγὼ δὲ οὐ ζητῶ τὴν 51. ἁμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν.
, Here only; ἐάν τις τὸν λόγον τὸν ἐμὸν τηρήσῃ, θάνατον οὗ μὴ " θεωρήση eis τὸν 52. Εἶπον οὖν αὐτῷ ot ᾿Ιουδαῖοι, “Nov ἐγνώκαμεν ὅτι ᾽Αβραὰμ ἀπέθανε καὶ οἱ προφῆται, καὶ σὺ λέγεις,
u Heb. ii. 9, Edv τις τὸν λόγον µου ᾿τηρήσῃ, οὗ μὴ " γεύσεται] θανάτου eis τὸν
1 γευσηται in ΒΔΑΟΡΙ..
... ἁμαρτίας; Alford, who represents a number of interpreters, says: ‘‘ The question is an appeal to His sinlessness of life, as evident to them all, as a pledge for His truthfulness of word”’. Calvin is better: ‘‘Haec defensio ad circumstantiam loci restringi debet, ac si quicquam sibi posse obiici negaret, quominus fidus esset Dei minister”’. Similarly Bengel.—et δὲ . . . por; “If I speak truth, why do you not believe me?” It follows from their inability to convict Him of sin, that He speaks what is true: if so, why do they not believe Him ?—Ver. 47. He is believed by those who have another moral parentage, 6 dv ... ἐστέ. ‘‘He that is of God listens to the words of God,” implying that the words He spoke were God’s words. Their not listening proved that they were not of God. At this point the Jews break in: Οὐ . . . ἔχεις: “Say we not well that Thou art a Samaritan and hast ademon?’’ “In the language in which they spoke, what is rendered into Greek by ‘Samaritan’ would have been either Cuthi, which, while literally meaning a Samaritan, is almost as often used in the sense of ‘ heretic,’ or else Shomroni. The latter word deserves special atten- tion. Literally, it also means ‘ Samar- itan’; but the name Shomron is also sometimes used as the equivalent of Ashmedai, the prince of the demons. According to the Kabbalists, Shomron was the father of Ashmedai, and hence the same as Sammael or Satan. That this was a widespread Jewish belief appears from the circumstance that in the Koran Israel is said to have been seduced into idolatry by Shomron, while
in Jewish tradition this is attributed to Sammael. If therefore the term applied by the Jews to Jesus was Shomroni— and not Cuthi, ‘ heretic’—it would literally mean ‘ Child of the Devil,’ ” Edersheim. The ordinary interpretation of ‘‘ Samaritan ”’ yields, however, quite a relevant meaning. To His refusal to own their true Abrahamic ancestry they retort that He is no pure Jew, a Samaritan.—Ver. 49. δαιµόνιον ἔχεις, possessed, or crazed. Cf. x. 20. To this Jesus replies: ᾿Εγὼ . . . αἰῶνα. The ἐγώ is emphatic in contrast to the expressed tpets of the last clause; “I am not out of my mind, but all I do and say springs from my desire to honour my Father, while you for your part and on this very account dishonour me”’. This dishonour does not stir His resent- ment, because (ver. 50) ἐγὼ . . . pov, “‘T am not seeking my own glory”. Cf. v.41. Nevertheless His glory is not to be carelessly slighted and turned into reproach (Ps, iv. 2) for ἔστιν 6 ζητῶν καὶ κρίνων, ‘there is who seeketh it and judgeth ” (vv. 22, 23).—Ver. 51. There- fore the emphasis in the next verse, precisely as in ver. 24 of chap. v., is on “my word’’.—édv τις .. . αἰῶνα, “ if any one keeps my word, he shall never see death”, For τηρεῖν see xiv. 15-23, xv. 10-20, xvii. 6, I John and Rev. passim; it is exactly equivalent to “keep”. θεωρεῖν θάνατον occurs only here. It is probably stronger than the commoner ἰδεῖν θάνατον (Lk. ii. 26, Heb. xi. 5), ‘expressing fixed contemplation and full acquaintance” (Plummer) ; although in John this fuller meaning is sometimes not apparent.—Ver. 52. This