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Joh 9:6. Εἰπών, having spoken) in the hearing of the blind man. Jesus also prayed, Joh 9:31, “If any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth His will, him He heareth.”-πηλόν, clay) Clean spittle, mixed with clean dust, was a clean medicine. Man was created from the earth: now the creation of sight is taken from the same earth.-ἐπὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς, upon the eyes) It is a poetic fancy of Nonnus, that he has represented that there was not even the trace of eyes on the face of this blind man: Joh 9:10 disproves it [How were thine eyes opened?]