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Joh 9:17. Προφήτης, a prophet) i.e. from God, Joh 9:16, “This man is not from God,” 33; ch. Joh 1:6, “There was a man sent from God,” etc.; Joh 3:2, “We know that Thou art a teacher come from God” [Jesus had prayed in undertaking the cure, Joh 9:31 : and from that circumstance the blind man had come to know the close intimacy subsisting between Jesus and God.-V. g.] It is delightful to observe how faith gradually arises in this man, whilst the Pharisees are contradicting [Teased with the repeated questionings of the men, at last he unlearned the lesson of being bound by mere authority. Thus advantage may be derived even from the perverse ways and humours of others.-V. g.]