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Joh 10:35. Ἐκείνους) them, weak creatures, nay, even deserving of the censure contained in this very psalm.-εἶπε, called) God called them, professing in the psalm that it is He who speaks, [Joh 10:1, God standeth in the congregation, etc.] Whence it is that immediately after the expression, the word of God, is used, ὁ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ: comp. 1Ki 18:31, “The sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name.”-πρὸς οὕς, unto whom) The reason is herein expressed, why they are called gods, and why in an inferior sense; comp. Mar 12:12, πρός, in reference to, “They knew that He spake the parable in reference to them.” Others interpret the πρός, against [Engl. Vers. of Mar 12:12].-ὁ λόγος, the word) And indeed the word in that psalm, which partly calls them gods, partly censures the same persons.-καὶ οὐ, and not) The Scripture cannot be broken, even in its smallest particular. A most firmly-established axiom. The appellation, gods, though not strictly used, cannot be broken, once that it has been set down in Scripture.