=34-36. Is it not written in your law.= He does not say in _our_ law, nor in _the_ law, but in _your_ law. Christ does not identify himself with the Jews, nor regard himself as subject to the law, though made under it, and yielding himself to it for a season. Comp. ch. 7:19; 8:17. The reference is to Psalm 82:6. There is no passage in the law, _i. e._, in the Pentateuch, which corresponds exactly to Christ’s words here, or to those of the Psalmist; but in Exodus 22:28, the title of “gods” is given to the judges. The Psalm in question is believed to have been written on the occasion of Jehosaphat’s reform of the courts and re-establishment of the law (2 Chron., ch. 19), and it contrasts the unjust judges of Israel, who had been called gods in the law, with God the Judge of all the earth.--=Unto whom the word of God came.= _The word of God_ is not the mere saying, “I have said ye are gods” (_Meyer_); it is never used in the N. T. in so limited a sense, to signify merely a particular phrase or utterance. It is either, The Spirit of God, _i. e._, God revealing himself to and through the prophet, as in ch. 1:1 (see note there) and Heb. 4:12; or it is the word given to the prophets by the Holy Spirit and by them repeated to the nation, _i. e._, nearly equivalent to the O. T. Scripture, as in Mark 7:13; Luke 5:1, etc.--=And the Scripture cannot be broken.= Literally _loosened_ (Matt. 5:19, note). This parenthetical declaration is a very significant testimony to the inspiration of the O. T.--=Whom the Father hath sanctified.= The original (ἁγιάζω) may be rendered either made holy, in the sense of made clean and pure in character, or made holy in the sense of set apart to a holy use. It is evidently in the latter sense that it is employed here.--=And sent into the world.= The sanctifying of Christ preceded the sending into the world. Evidently, therefore, the reference is not to any act recorded in the life of Christ, as the descent of the Holy Spirit at the baptism, but to a consecration in the will of God to the work of redemption, and which preceded the Advent.--=Thou blasphemest.= That is, art guilty of diverting the allegiance of the people from God to thyself.--=Because I said I am a Son of God.= The article is wanting in the Greek, and ought not to be added in the translation.