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Joh 3:27. Οὐ δύναται, cannot) How can I dare, saith he, to bind men to me?-ἄνθρωπος, a man) I, saith John, who am but a man.-λαμβάνειν) to take to himself.-οὐδέν, nothing) much less the name of Messiah.[58]-ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, from heaven) i.e. from God. These Metonymes [substitutions of the general for the definite expression] imply modesty [humility].
[58] By very many proofs it was evident that John was not the Christ. For instance, I. John had no forerunner, but himself acted the part of a forerunuer, such as was becoming [to go before] Christ the Lord; wherefore, as well in birth, as in entrance on his ministry, and in his departure, he preceded Christ. II. John wrought no miracle: Christ very many. III. John, as well as his baptism, was restricted to the Jordan; whereas Christ shone as a light [illuminated all things] in Judea, Galilee, and the regions situated beyond Jordan. IV. John, after being for a considerable time detained in bonds, was at length slain in prison: Christ, without imprisonment up to His very death, nay, even being bound, and especially on the very day of His execution, in the sight of the world, did and spake all that became Him. V. John was beheaded: Christ’s body, though piteously afflicted, was yet not mutilated, bat remained preserved in that state which would be suitable to His resurrection about to take place on the third day.-Harm., p. 166, etc.