John 8:25

25. Who art thou? Since you declare I am, and require our faith, declare who you are. How gladly would they have had him declare,

I am your leader to universal supremacy. The same that I said Tholuck’s rendering of this much disputed passage seems to us the true one: What I told you already in the beginning, that am I. He refuses to add the word Messiah, hero, liberator. Just what all his discourses to them have described him to be, just that he is; and with that, were their hearts unperverted, they would be most joyously satisfied.