SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:40
Pero ahora procuris matarme, hombre que os he hablado la verdad, la cual he oído de Dios; no hizo esto Abraham.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 40. But now ye seek to kill me , etc.] A temper and disposition very foreign from that of Abrahams: a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God ; to seek to kill a man is a very great crime, and punishable with death; to kill an innocent one, that had done no sin, who was pure, holy, harmless, and inoffensive to God and man, was an aggravation of the iniquity; and to kill a prophet, and one more than a prophet, who brought a revelation from God himself, and declared the whole truth of the Gospel, and particularly that of his divine, eternal sonship, which incensed them against him, and put them upon seeking to take away his life, still increased the sin. This did not Abraham : the sense is not, that Abraham did not tell the truth he had heard of God; for he did instruct, and command his children after him, to walk in the ways of the Lord, which he had learned from him; but that Abraham did not reject any truth that was revealed unto him, and much less seek to take away the life of any person that brought it to him; and indeed not the life of any man that deserved not to die: and our Lord suggests, that if he had been on the spot now, he would not have done as these his posterity did, since he saw his day by faith, and rejoiced in the foresight of it, ( John 8:56). The Jew makes an objection from these words against the deity of Christ; you see (says he) that Jesus declares concerning himself that he is not God, but man; and so says Paul concerning him, ( Romans 5:15); and so Jesus, in many places, calls himself the son of man: for do we find in any place that he calls himself God, as the Nazarenes believe. To which may be replied, that Jesus does not declare in these words, nor in any other place, that he is not God; he says no such thing; he only observes, that he was a man, as he really was: nor is his being man any contradiction to his being God; for he is both God and man; and so those that believe in him affirm: and though Christ does not in express terms call himself God, yet he owned himself to be the Son of God, ( Mark 14:61), and said such things of himself, as manifestly declared him to be God; and upon account of which the Jews concluded, that he not only made himself equal with God, but that he made himself God, ( John 5:17,18 10:33).
Besides, he suffered himself to be called God by a disciple of his, which he would never have done, had he not been really and truly God, ( John 20:28); yea, he seems to call himself so, when being tempted by Satan, he observed to him what is written, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, ( Matthew 4:7). The reason why he so often calls himself the son of man is, because it was more suitable to him in his state of humiliation; and indeed, there was no need for him to assert his deity in express words, since his works and miracles most clearly proved that he was God: and as for the Apostle Paul, though he sometimes speaks of him as a man, he also says of him, that he is God over all, blessed for ever; and calls him the great God, and our Saviour, and God manifest in the flesh, ( Romans 9:5 Titus 2:13 1 Timothy 3:16).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 37-40 - Our Lord opposed the proud and vain confidence of these Jews, showin that their descent from Abraham could not profit those of a contrar spirit to him. Where the word of God has no place, no good is to be expected; room is left there for all wickedness. A sick person wh turns from his physician, and will take neither remedies nor food, in past hope of recovery. The truth both heals and nourishes the hearts of those who receive it. The truth taught by philosophers has not thi power and effect, but only the truth of God. Those who claim the privileges of Abraham, must do Abraham's works; must be strangers an sojourners in this world; keep up the worship of God in their families and always walk before God.
Greek Textus Receptus
νυν 3568 ADV δε 1161 CONJ ζητειτε 2212 5719 V-PAI-2P με 3165 P-1AS αποκτειναι 615 5658 V-AAN ανθρωπον 444 N-ASM ος 3739 R-NSM την 3588 T-ASF αληθειαν 225 N-ASF υμιν 5213 P-2DP λελαληκα 2980 5758 V-RAI-1S ην 3739 R-ASF ηκουσα 191 5656 V-AAI-1S παρα 3844 PREP του 3588 T-GSM θεου 2316 N-GSM τουτο 5124 D-ASN αβρααμ 11 N-PRI ουκ 3756 PRT-N εποιησεν 4160 5656 V-AAI-3S
Vincent's NT Word Studies
40. A man (anqrwpon). Used only here by the Lord of Himself. To this corresponds His calling the Devil a manslayer at ver. 44. Perhaps, too, as Westcott remarks, it may suggest the idea of the human sympathy which, as a man, He was entitled to claim from them.This did not Abraham. In the oriental traditions Abraham is spoken of as "full of loving-kindness."
