John 9:38

πιστ. κύριε. I believe, Lord: the order is worth keeping. Comp. the centurion’s confession (Matthew 27:54). There is no need to suppose that in either case the man making the confession knew anything like the full meaning of belief in the Son of God: even Apostles were slow at learning that. The blind man had had his own uninformed idea of the Messiah, and he believed that the realisation of that idea stood before him. His faith was necessarily imperfect, a poor ‘two mites;’ but it was ‘all that he had,’ and he gave it readily, while the learned Rabbis of their abundance gave nothing. It is quite gratuitous to suppose that a special revelation was granted to him. There is no hint of this, nor can one see why so great an exception to God’s usual dealings with man should have been made.

προσεκύνησεν. This shews that his idea of the Son of God includes attributes of Divinity. Προσκυνεῖν occurs elsewhere in this Gospel only in John 4:20-24 and John 12:20, always of the worship of God.