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Joh 1:46. Δύναταί τι) can anything? Therefore there were many worthless characters. Comp. as to that whole region, ch. Joh 7:52, “Search and look; for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet” [the Pharisees to Nicodemus]. Nathanael’s question is however more modest and cautious, than if he categorically denied [that anything good could come from Galilee]. Christ did not owe His excellency to His native land on earth [His excellency was not to be set down to the account of His earthly country]. He came from heaven.-ἀγαθόν, good) But how great a Good, Christ! ch. Joh 7:12, “Some said, He is a good man.”-ἔρχου καὶ ἴδε, come and see) The best remedy against preconceived opinions. What Jesus the day before had replied to the disciples [Joh 1:39], “Come and see”: that now Philip replies to others, Ἴδε, see, i.e. you will see. Often an imperative after an imperative has the force of a future; Gen 17:1, “Walk before Me, and be thou perfect”= and thus thou shall be, Amo 5:4, “Seek ye Me and ye shall live.” See Glass. Phil. Can. xliii, de Verbo.