24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.



Ver. 24. Give God the glory] It appears, Jos_7:19; 1Sa_6:5, that this was some solemn form, in use among that people when they required an oath of delinquents. This the hypocrites made use of, as when the devils adjured Christ by the living God not to cast them out. So their forefathers would persecute godly men, and molest them with Church censures, and then say, "Let the Lord be glorified," Isa_66:5. With like honesty, as the conspirators in King Richard II’s time here in England indorsed all their letters, with "Glory be to God on high, on earth peace, good will towards men." This poor man might have answered as Robert Smith the marytr did, when Bonner began the sentence of death against him, In Dei nomine, In the name of God, Ye begin in a wrong name, said he.