Verse 47
47. Of God Preferring God to Satan.
Heareth God’s words His preference for God induces him to prefer the truth of God.
Therefore It follows that the reason why ye reject truth is because ye reject the God of truth. And this forms the answer to the searching question in John 8:46.
Such is the fearful picture which the Son of God draws of these, the seed of Abraham. Children of Satan in heart and deed, they excluded regeneration by a resolute exclusion of truth. From them, then, Christ was shut out, and Satan was shut in. Jesus then proceeds to a firm attestation of his own high nature, closing with the grand climax of John 8:58.
II. Christ’s exalted character asserted he is prior to, and Lord of, Abraham.
In this lofty strain of self-assertion, Jesus blends a tone of deepest humility touching himself as towards God, and the gentlest firmness towards his opposers.
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