32. Et cognoscetis veritatem, 32. And you shall know the et veritas liberabit vos. truth, and the truth shall make you free. 32. *The truth*; _i.e._, the whole body of revelation. 33. Responderunt ei: Semen 33. They answered him: We are Abrahae sumus, et nemini the seed of Abraham, and we servivimus unquam: quomodo tu have never been slaves to any dicis: Liberi eritis? man: how sayest thou: You shall be free? 34. Respondit eis Iesus: Amen, 34. Jesus answered them: Amen, amen dico vobis: quia omnis amen, I say unto you, that qui facit peccatum, servus est whosoever committeth sin, is peccati: the servant of sin. 35. Servus autem non manet in 35. Now the servant abideth domo in aeternum: filius autem not in the house for ever: but manet in aeternum: the son abideth for ever: 36. Si ergo vos filius 36. If therefore the son shall liberaverit, vere liberi make you free, you shall be eritis. free indeed. 33‐36. To Christ’s promise that the truth should make them free, some of the crowd who remained incredulous, replied that they were never slaves, to which Christ makes answer that they are the slaves of sin: and only when the Son of God shall free them, shall they be truly free. Verse 35 is an illustration drawn from ordinary life. As slaves who displease their masters may be sold, or expelled from the household, so you who, instead of serving God, are the slaves of sin, are, and shall remain, excluded from the household of God here and hereafter. 37. Scio quia filii Abrahae 37. I know that you are the estis: sed quaeritis me children of Abraham: but you interficere, quia sermo meus seek to kill me, because my non capit in vobis. word hath no place in you. 38. Ego quod vidi apud Patrem 38. I speak that which I have meum loquor, et vos quae seen with my Father: and you vidistis apud patrem vestrum, do the things that you have facitis. seen with your father. 38. *Your father*; _i.e._, the devil (see verse 44). Others understand ποιεῖτε as an imperative; do then the works which you have seen with your father (Abraham). But since the following verse proves that the Jews understood Christ to speak of another father than Abraham, for this reason, and because of verse 44, the first interpretation is preferable. The sense then is: You do the works that you have learned from your father the devil. 39. Responderunt, et dixerunt 39. They answered, and said to ei: Pater noster Abraham est. him: Abraham is our father. Dicit eis Iesus: Si filii Jesus saith to them: If you be Abrahae estis, opera Abrahae the children of Abraham, do facite. the works of Abraham.