in your law -Law" is here used in its widest sense for the whole of the Old Testament; so also in John 12:34 and John 15:25; in all three places the passage referred to is in the Psalms. Comp. Joh 7:19, 1 Corinthians 14:21. The force of the pronoun is, -for which you profess to have such a regard:" comp. John 8:17. On the Greek for -is it written" see on John 2:17.

I said, Ye are gods The argument is both à fortioriand ad hominem. In the Scriptures (Psalms 82:6) even unjust rulers are called -gods" on the principle of the theocracy, that rulers are the delegates and representatives of God (comp. Exodus 22:28). If this is admissible without blasphemy, how much more may He call Himself -Son of God."

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