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Joh 12:34. Ἡμεῖς, we) This word has in it something of irony in this passage.[322]-ἐκ τοῦ νόμου) out of the Law, under which are comprehended the prophets and psalms.-μένει, abideth) Psa 16:10, “Neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption;” Psa 45:7 [6?], “Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever;” Psa 72:5, “They shall fear Thee as long as the sun and moon endureth, throughout all generations;” Psa 89:29, “His throne as the days of heaven;” Isa 53:8, “Who shall declare His generation?” Joh 12:10, “He shall prolong His days.”-[323] καί, and) The Jews join together things which ought not to have been joined:[324] Isa 53:8, “He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation?” Death itself was His path to everlasting duration.-πῶς, τίς, how, who) They ask a double question: concerning His being lifted up, from Joh 12:32; concerning His being the Son of man, from Joh 12:23, “The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified” [with which comp. ch. Joh 8:28, “When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am He”].-τίς) Who is, say they, the Son of man, if the Christ be not? And yet Thou sayest, that the Son of man is about to be lifted up; whereas the Christ does not die: τίς, who, of what nature and character.
[322] We had always heard so and so, but you, in sooth, are wiser.-E. and T.
[323] εἰς τὀν αἰῶνα, for ever) They therefore were entertaining exalted sentiments concerning the Christ.-V. g.
[324] i.e. They ought not to have confounded together His everlasting dominion and His death: the former is distinct from, though to be preceded necessarily by the latter.-E. and T.