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Joh_1:50. The double designation is uttered in the excitement of joyful certainty. The simple faith in the Messiah, expressed in Joh_1:41, is here intensified, not as to its subject-matter, but in its outward expression. Comp. Luthardt, p. 344. The second designation is the more definite of the two; and therefore the first, in the sense in which Nathanael used it, is not as yet to be apprehended metaphysically (against Hengstenberg) in John’s sense, but is simply theocratic, presupposing the national view (Psa_2:7; Joh_11:27) of the promised and expected theocratic King (comp. Riehm in the Stud. u. Krit. 1865, p. 63 ff.), and not perhaps implying the teaching of the Baptist (Olshausen). The early occurrence of such confessions therefore conflicts the less with that later one of Peter’s in Mat_16:3, which implies, however, a consciousness of the higher import of the words (against Strauss).