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42. Moral proof that God is not their Father; if He were, they would love His Son. Comp. Joh 15:23 and ‘Every one that loveth Him that begat loveth Him also that is begotten of Him’ (1Jn 5:1). Here, as in Joh 8:19, Joh 5:46, Joh 9:41, Joh 15:19, Joh 13:36, we have imperfects, not aorists: contrast Joh 4:10, Joh 11:21; Joh 11:32, Joh 14:28.
ἐκ. τ. θ. ἐξῆλθον κ. ἥκω. I came out from God and am here from God among you. See on Joh 16:28, the only other place where ἐκ τ. Θ. ἐξῆλθον occurs: it includes the Divine Generation of the Son. In the highest and fullest sense He is ‘of God:’ if they were God’s children they would recognise and love Him.
οὐδὲ γάρ. Proof of His Divine origin: for not even of Myself have I come. ‘So far from having come from any other than God, I have not even come of My own self-determination.’