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Joh 10:34. Ἀπεκρίθη, answered) The Jews had said, Thou sayest that Thou art God, and indeed God by nature (for their blindness lay in joining this Godhead with the manhood): and Jesus acknowledge [as His claims] this Godhead of nature, without denying His manhood, and does not lower His claims by His subsequent language, but defends them: comp. Joh 10:39, “Therefore they sought again to take Him,” as to the question in what sense the Jews understood His words. From these considerations a reply can easily be made to Artemonius, P. ii., c. 1. They had surrounded Jesus, Joh 10:24; and so in this menacing attitude were threatening Him with death; yet His wisdom and presence of mind remains unshaken.-ἐγώ) I, God; for from the εἶπα in the first person, the inference is drawn, to whom the word of God came, in the following ver.-θεοί, gods) Psa 82:6; the parallel is added; υἱοὶ ὑψίστου, sons of the Most High. Therefore also at Joh 10:36,[288] there ought to be understood Θεός, God, to Υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, the Son of God.[289] The Jews did not admit Jesus to be God in any sense: therefore, in refutation of them, He quotes the psalm. But a comparison drawn from a psalm does not prove that the Godhead of Christ approaches nearer to the godhead of mortals, than to the Godhead of the eternal Father; for He did not ever quote this passage of the psalm to believers.
[288] To complete the correspondence of the parallels.-E. and T.
[289] God, the Son of God, answering respectively to gods and children of the Most High.-E. and T.