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Joh_9:34. Thou wert born with thy whole nature laden with sin, so that nothing in thee is pure from sins; but thou art entirely, through and through, a born reprobate.[50] They entertain the same prejudice regarding sinfulness before birth (not of the parents) to which the disciples had previously given expression (Joh_9:2), and make here a spiteful application thereof. Comp. on ὍΛΟς , Joh_13:10. The notion of “heightened original sin” (Hengstenberg, after Psa_51:7) is not appropriate to the connection, as the inference from being born blind implies ἁμαρτίας committed before birth.
Note the contemptuous emphasis of the ΣΎ … ΣΎ .
ΔΙΔΆΣΚ . ἩΜ .] The emphasis rests here, not on ΔΙΔΆΣΚ ., but on ἩΜᾶς : dost thou comport thyself as our teacher?
ἐξέβαλ . αὐτ . ἔξω ] not a designation of excommunication (Olshausen, De Wette, Tholuck, Baeumlein, and many older commentators), as no sitting of the Sanhedrim had taken place; and, besides, how indefinite a mode of designating the matter would it be! although ἐκβάλλειν is frequently used by Thucydides, Xenophon, and others to denote exile. Comp. also 3 John, Joh_9:10. As the context suggests nothing else, and as there is not a hint of a sentence of excommunication, which might perhaps have been pronounced a few days later in the synagogue (Ewald), we must simply explain: they cast him out. Significant enough as the final result of the hostile and passionate discussion. Comp. Chrysostom, Nonnus, and Theophylact, who, however, transfers the scene to the temple. The remark of Maldonatus is correct: “ex loco, in quo erant.” Comp. Bengel, Dem. 1366. 11; Act_7:58.
[50] Nonnus: σύγγονος ἀμπλακίησιν ἐμαιώθης ὅλος ἀνήρ .