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Joh_7:16. Jesus at once solves for them the riddle. “The contradictory relation: that of learning in the case of one who had been uninstructed, would be found in my teaching only if it were mine,” etc.
ἡ ἐμή and οὐκ ἐ . ἐμή are used in different senses: “the teaching which I give,” and “it is not my possession, but God’s;” how far, see Joh_7:17, comp. Joh_5:19; Joh_5:30.
τοῦ πέμψ . με ] a carefully-chosen designation, because the Sender has communicated to His messenger, and continually communicates what He is to say in His name.[261]
οὐκ … ἀλλά ] here also not: non tam … quam, but simply excluding human individuality. Comp. Joh_8:28, Joh_14:24.
[261] Bengel (in Wächter in the Beitr. z. Beng. Schrifterklär. 1865, p. 125). “If we may speak after the manner of men, the heavenly Father gives him a collegium privatissimum, and that upon no author.” This relation, however, does not justify such onesided exaggerations as those of Delitzsch, Jesus u. Hillel, 1866.