“Quis ex vobis arguet me de peccato ? si veritatem dico vobis, quare non creditis mihi ?”
“Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?”
“Which of you can prove Me guilty of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?”
“Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?”
“Which of you convicteth me of sin? If I say truth, why 1223, Acts1 do ye not believe me?”
(2.) Now, to show them the unreasonableness of their infidelity, he condescends to put the matter to this fair issue, v. 46. He and they being contrary, either he was in an error or they were. Now take it either way.
Verses 41-47 Satan prompts men to excesses by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into the mind tends to ruin men's souls. He is the great promoter of falsehood of every kind. He is a liar, all his temptations are carried on by his calling evil good, and good evil, and promising freedom in sin. He is the author of all lies; whom liars resemble and obey, with whom all liars shall have their portion for ever. The special lusts of the devil are spiritual wickedness, the lusts of the mind, and corrupt reasonings, pride and envy, wrath and malice, enmity to good, and enticing others to evil. By the truth, here understand the revealed will of God as to the salvation of men by Jesus Christ, the truth Christ was now preaching, and which the Jews opposed.