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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:7

Siloam - Called also Shiloah, Silos, or Siloa, was a fountain under the walls of Jerusalem, towards the east, between the city and the brook Kidron. Calmet thinks that this was the same with En-rogel, or the fuller's fountain, which is mentioned in Joshua 15:7 ; Joshua 18:16 ; in 2 Samuel 17:17 ; and in 1 Kings 1:9 . Its waters were collected in a great reservoir for the use of the city; and a stream from it supplied the pool of Bethesda. By interpretation, Sent - From the Hebrew... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:8

That he was blind - Ὁτι τυφλος ην : but, instead of this, προσαιτης , when he begged, or was a beggar, is the reading of ABC*DKL, seven others, both the Syriac, both the Arabic, later Persic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Sahidic, Gothic, Slavonic, Vulgate, eight copies of the Itala, and some of the primitive fathers. This is in all probability the true reading, and is received by Griesbach into the text. Beggars in all countries have a language peculiar to themselves. The language of... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:9

Some said, This is he - This miracle was not wrought in private - nor before a few persons - nor was it lightly credited. Those who knew him before were divided in their opinion concerning him: not whether the man who sat there begging was blind before - for this was known to all; nor, whether the person now before them saw clearly - for this was now notorious; but whether this was the person who was born blind, and who used in a particular place to sit begging. Others said, He is like... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:11

A man that is called Jesus - The whole of this relation is simple and artless in the highest degree. The blind man had never seen Jesus, but he had heard of his name - he felt that he had put something on his eyes, which he afterwards found to be clay - but how this was made he could not tell, because he could not see Jesus when he did it; therefore he does not say, he made clay of spittle - but simply, he made clay, and spread it upon my eyes. Where a multitude of incidents must necessarily... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:12

Where is he? - They had designed to seize and deliver him up to the Sanhedrin, as a violater of the law, because he had done this on the Sabbath day. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:13

They brought to the Pharisees - These had the chief rule, and determined all controversies among the people; in every case of religion, their judgment was final: the people, now fully convinced that the man had been cured, brought him to the Pharisees, that they might determine how this was done, and whether it had been done legally. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:14

It was the Sabbath - Some of the ancient rabbins taught, and they have been followed by some moderns, not much better skilled in physic than themselves, that the saliva is a cure for several disorders of the eyes; but the former held this to be contrary to the law, if applied on the Sabbath. See Lightfoot's Hor. Talm. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:16

This man is not of God - He can neither be the Messiah, nor a prophet, for he has broken the Sabbath. The Jews always argued falsely on this principle. The law relative to the observation of the Sabbath never forbade any work but what was of the servile and unnecessary kind. Works of necessity and mercy never could be forbidden on that day by him whose name is mercy, and whose nature is love; for the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath; were it otherwise, the Sabbath would... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:17

He is a prophet - They had intended to lay snares for the poor man, that, getting him to acknowledge Christ for the Messiah, they might put him out of the synagogue, John 9:22 , or put him to death, that such a witness to the Divine power of Christ might not appear against them. But, as the mercy of God had given him his sight, so the wisdom of God taught him how to escape the snares laid for his ruin. On all thy glory there shall be a defense, says the prophet, Isaiah 4:5 . When God... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:18

But the Jews did not believe - All the subterfuge they could use was simply to sin against their conscience, by asserting that the man had not been blind; but out of this subterfuge they were soon driven by the testimony of the parents, who, if tried farther on this subject, might have produced as witness, not only the whole neighborhood, but nearly the whole city: for it appears the man got his bread by publicly begging, John 9:8 . That he had been blind, and received his sight - This... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:17

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:18

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