John Gill's Exposition on John 16:29

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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His disciples said unto him, etc.] Upon the above discourse of Christ, such rays and beams of light darted into the minds of the apostles, and things stood so clear in their view, and they so well understood what Christ had said, that they declare, lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb: what he had said before, were to them like proverbial, or parabolical expressions, not easy to be understood; they were like enigmas, riddles, and dark sayings, the meaning of which they could not apprehend; but now they observe, with admiration, that what he delivered was plain, and intelligible; which was not so much owing to Christ’s different way of speaking now, from what it was before, as to their former dulness of hearing, and now having some further degree of light given unto them.

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