Anf-03 v.iv.v.xviii Pg 28
Luke vii. 20.
—simply inquiring whether He was come as He whom he was looking for. “Art thou He that should come?” i.e. Art thou the coming One? “or look we for another?” i.e. Is He whom we are expecting some other than Thou, if Thou art not He whom we expect to come? For he was supposing,4163 4163 Sperabat.
as all men then thought, from the similarity of the miraculous evidences,4164 4164 Documentorum.
that a prophet might possibly have been meanwhile sent, from whom the Lord Himself, whose coming was then expected, was different, and to whom He was superior.4165 4165 Major.
And there lay John’s difficulty.4166 4166 Scandalum.
He was in doubt whether He was actually come whom all men were looking for; whom, moreover, they ought to have recognised by His predicted works, even as the Lord sent word to John, that it was by means of these very works that He was to be recognised.4167 4167
