Verse 69
69. We believe A generous confiding we; proof of a good heart but of a fallible head. Here, as ever. there is a slight collapse after Peter’s magnanimous assumptions.
Christ, the Son of the living God The words of this confession are given very differently in different ancient manuscripts. Alford decides for the reading, thou art the holy one of God. And this is fully as strong as the words in our English version. It, then, means that he is God’s sole holy one. He is, then, all he ever claims himself to be. Had the Jews, (John 6:41,) or the disciples of John 6:60 and John 6:66, had this simple faith in the very self of Jesus, they would not have been disturbed by the mystery of his discourse about himself. (John 6:51-58.) Thou art first of all the holy one of God; then, what thy works or thy words, however mysterious, proclaim thee to be, that thou art; and that I believe so far as I understand, and trust so far as I understand not.
Be the first to react on this!
