24. Give God the praise (dds Sofav 7G Oe). Rev., gue glory to God. Compare Josh. vii. 19; 1 Sam. vi. 5. This phrase addressed to an offender implies that by some previous act or word he has done dishonor to God, and appeals to him to repair the dishonor by speaking the truth. In this case it is also an appeal to the restored man to ascribe his cure directly to God, and not to Jesus. Palgrave, ‘Central and Eastern
Arabia,” says that the Arabic phrase commonly addressed to one who has said something extremely out of place, is /staghjir Allah, Ask pardon of God.
We know. The we is emphatic. We, the wise men and guardians of religion.
28. Reviled (€dovSdpncav). The verb means to reproach or scold in a loud and abusive manner. Calvin, on 1 Cor. iv. 12, “being reviled we bless,” remarks: “Aovopéa is a harsher rail- ing, which not only rebukes a man, but also sharply bites him, and stamps him with open contumely. Hence Dowopeiv is to wound a man as with an accursed sting.”
His disciple (uadntis éxelvov). Lit., that man’s disciple. The pronoun has a contemptuous force which is not given by his.
29. Spake (AcAdAnxev). Perfect tense, hath spoken, and the authority of Moses’ words therefore continues to the present. So Rev. Aanréw is to talk, familiarly. See Exod. xxxiii. 11.
Whence he is. Compare vii. 27; viii. 14.
30. A marvellous thing (Savyzacrov). The correct reading adds the article, the marvel. So Rev.
Ve know not. eis emphatic: ye who might be expected to know about a man who has wrought such a miracle.
And yet («al). See on viii. 20; i. 10.
31. We know. Here the pronoun is not expressed, and the we is not emphatic, like the pronouns in vy. 24, 29, but ex- presses the common information of all concerning a familiar fact.
A worshipper of God (Jeoce87s). Only here in the New Testament. The kindred word, SeoréBeva, godliness, oceurs only at 1 Tim. ii. 10. Compounded with @cds, God, and oéGouar, ta