Because I speak the truth (εγω δε οτ την αληθειαν λεγω). Proleptic emphatic position of εγω. "Truth is uncongenial to them" (Berna…

And because I tell you the truth.—The pronoun is full of emphatic meaning. And I, as contrary to him, because I tell you …

I know that you are Abraham's seed; yet you seek to kill me, because my word does not have free course in you. I speak the things which I have …

St. John Chrysostom: Our Lord, having already cut off the Jews from their relationship to Abraham, now overthrows this far gre…

“Truth” (GK 237) is an abstract that is difficult for people to know and appreciate (cf. 18:38). Jesus told the Jews that because they were childre…

But because I speak the truth. He confirms the preceding statement; for, since they have no other reason for opposing, but that truth is h…

And because I tell you the truth

Satan prompts people to exce es by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into their minds tends to ruin their souls. He is th…

1. After mentioning some characteristics of the devil, the Lord then shows that the Jews are imitating them. Our Lord ascribed two kinds of …