“Qui ex Deo est, verba Dei audit. Propterea vos non auditis, quia ex Deo non estis.”
“He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.”
“Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.””
“He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.””
“He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this cause ye hear them not, because ye are not of God.”
2. Another thing charged upon them is that they would not hear the words of God (v. 47), which further shows how groundless their claim of relation to God was. Here is,
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.