Opposite Results of the Discourse

60. Many therefore of his disciples Including many more than the Apostles.

This is a hard saying Or, Hard is this speech. Not hard to understand, but hard to accept. The word for -hard" means originally -dry," and so -rough;" and then in a moral sense, -rough, harsh, offensive." Nabal the churl has this epithet, 1 Samuel 25:3; and the slothful servant in the parable of the Talents calls his master a - hardman," Matthew 25:24. Here the meaning is: -This is a repulsive speech; who can listen to it?" It was the notion of eating flesh and drinking blood that specially scandalized them. See on John 5:47.

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