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Joh_9:19-21. To the two questions put in Joh_9:19 exactly corresponding answers are returned in Joh_9:20-21; the second, however, twice nesciendo.
ὃν ὑμεῖς λέγετε ] opposed to the personal unbelief of the questioners; ὅν as in Joh_6:71.
πῶς ] how does it happen that?
οὖν ] as it is alleged that he was born blind.
Joh_9:20. πῶς δὲ ἄρτι βλέπει , ἀγνοεῖν λέγουσι , φοβούμενοι τοὺς Ἰουδαίους . Ἔξω κινδύνου καθιστῶντες ἑαυτοὺς , ἐπὶ τὸν τεθεραπευμένον παραπέμπουσι τὴν ἐρώτησιν , ὡς ἀξιοπιστότερον αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ τοιούτῳ ζητήματι , Euth. Zigabenus.
ἡμεῖς ] opposed to the αὐτός … αὐτόν … αὐτός , afterwards thrice repeated, and asyndetically, with passionate emphasis. ἡλικίαν ἔχει ] he himself is of full age; comp. Herod. 3. 36, 7. 18; Thuc. 8. 75; Polyb. 9. 23. 9, al. See Kypke, I. p. 387; Loesner, p. 150.
αὐτὸς περὶ αὐτοῦ ] he will himself speak concerning himself. αὐτοῦ with the Spir. lenis. Buttm. Neut. Gr. p. 97 f. [E. T. p. 112]).