65. Therefore said I, &c.--that is, "That was why I spoke to you of
the necessity of divine teaching which some of you are strangers to."
except it were given him--plainly showing that by the Father's
"drawing"
(Joh 6:44)
was meant an internal and efficacious operation, for in
recalling the statement here He says, it must be "given to a man
to come" to Christ.
JFB.
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