Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
That he was blind - ̔ : but, instead of this, , when he begged, or was a beggar, is the reading of ABC*DKL, seven others, both the Syriac, both the Arabic, later Persic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Sahidic, Gothic, Slavonic, Vulgate, eight copies of the Itala, and some of the primitive fathers. This is in all probability the true reading, and is received by Griesbach into the text.
Beggars in all countries have a language peculiar to themselves. The language of the Jewish beggars was the following: Deserve something by me - Give me something that God may reward you. O ye tender-hearted, do yourselves good by me. Another form, which seems to have been used by such as had formerly been in better circumstances, was this: Look back and see what I have been; look upon me now, and see what I am. See Lightfoot.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing John 9:8:
John 9:1
John 9:18
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