John 10:35 - Exposition

If he (the Holy Spirit, or the Holy Lawgiver, the subject is left indefinite) called them gods ( elohim ), to whom the Word of God came —the personal "Word" need not be excluded here; the "Word of God" was the Divine agency by which prophets spoke and psalmists sang— and the Scripture ( γραφή is singular, and has reference, not to all the γραφαί , but to this one word) cannot he broken ; loosed, destroyed. A fine testimony to the confidence which our Lord exercised in the Holy Scripture. He was accustomed to educe principles of life from its inward structure, from its concealed framework, from its underlying verities. The very method adopted by Jesus on this occasion revealed the fact that both he and his biographer were born Jews. These tyrannical judges were "to die like men," yet, since "the Word of God came to them," there was a sense in which even they, without blasphemous assumptions, might receive the title of elohim .