John 10:34-36

Is it not written... said ye are gods.

The quotation is from Ps. 82, which contains. reproof of unjust judges: "I have said that ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High, but ye shall die like men and fall like one of the princes." The argument of Christ is: If in your law judges are called gods, and allowed to have, in some sense, the divine characteristics, and are called children of God, why should you pronounce me guilty of blasphemy for saying that. am the Son of God?

And the Scripture cannot be broken.

This parenthetic declaration is. very significant testimony to the inspiration of the Old Testament. Modern theologues who deal so freely with it find no warrant for their course in the example of Christ.

Whom the Father hath sanctified.

The word sanctify means "to make holy, or to set apart." It is here used in the latter sense.

Son of God.

There is no article before Son in the Greek. Some have regarded this whole passage as an explanation of the Sonship of Christ in. way that would make it possible for any good man to be. Son in the same sense. If it were the only passage in the New Testament bearing on the subject it might be so explained, but if the circumstances are regarded, it will be seen that there is nothing that conflicts with the statements of his divine character elsewhere. The Jews were about to rush upon him in. mob to stone him to death, because of his affirmation that he was the Son of God, and one with the Father. He arrested them by an appeal to those Scriptures that they held in such sanctity. He neither affirms nor discusses the difference of his relation to God from those whom the Scriptures had spoken of as gods because they were appointed judges of men, as God is Judge of all the earth, but demands why they should pronounce him. blasphemer for declaring that he was the Son of God, when their Scriptures had called men gods. See Exodus 22:28 as well as Psalms 82:6. We would not look for. revelation of the highest truths concerning Christ's nature to an angry mob, not that he would conceal or modify the truth to avert danger, but because they were in no condition to receive it, and he would only present such truths as their souls were in. condition to apprehend. For full information of Christ's character we must look to his quiet conferences with his own disciples. See Chapter XIV.