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40. ‘But, as it is, ye seek to commit murder of the most heinous kind. Ye would kill One who is your fellow-man, and that for telling you the truth, truth which He heard from God.’ The insertion of ἄνθρωπον, which the Lord nowhere else uses of Himself, involves His claim to their sympathy, and perhaps anticipates Joh 8:44, where they are called the children of the great ἀνθρωποκτόνος, lusting like him for blood.
τοῦτο Ἀβ. οὐκ ἐποί. Litotes, or understatement: comp. Joh 3:19, Joh 6:37. Abraham’s life was utterly unlike theirs. What had ‘the Friend of God’ (Jam 2:23) in common with the foes of God’s Son?