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Joh 7:19. Μωσῆς, Moses) whom ye believe.-ὑμῖν, to you) not to me.-τὸν νόμον, the law) There is much mention of the Law made here; Joh 7:23; Joh 7:49; Joh 7:51; appropriately so: for שמחת תורה, the joy of the law, completed in the public reading of it, is on the day following the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles.[182] The eighth day, according to the different points of view, in which it was regarded, was either part of the Feast of Tabernacles, or a distinct feast. The former is the view of it, which holds good in John: and in the same feast, every seventh year, the Law used to be read: Deu 31:10, “At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in he Feast of Tabernacles, thou shalt read this law before all Israel, in their hearing.”-οὐδείς, none) Ye assail Me as guilty of violating the law, Joh 7:21, etc. But yet ye all violate it.-τί με, why me) as though I had violated the Sabbath.-ζητεῖτε, ye seek) Ye seek to kill Me. Therefore ye fulfil not the law. Therefore ye do not the will of God. Therefore ye cannot reach the knowledge of My doctrine, because ye are altogether unlike Me, and hate Me.
[182] This name, “The Joy of the Law,” was given to the festival celebrated on the day after the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles. See Vitringa Synag. Vet. p. 1003. Comp. Nehem. Joh 8:17-18. On the feast of tabernacles “there was very great gladness. And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days: and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly according unto the manner.-E. and T.