36. Respondit ille, et dixit: 36. He answered, and said: Who Quis est, Domine, ut credam in is he, Lord, that I may eum? believe in him? 36. Probably the man recognised the voice of his benefactor, whom he had not seen until now, and he at once shows himself prepared to do what he understands Christ’s question to suggest. He believed that Christ who had cured him, and whom he regarded as a prophet, would not deceive him as to who was really the Son of God. Lord (Gr. κύριε) ought rather to be rendered “Sir.” It is a term of respect, but does not at all imply that the man already recognised Christ to be his Lord and God, as is clear from the context. 37. Et dixit ei Iesus: Et 37. And Jesus said to him: vidisti eum, et qui loquitur Thou hast both seen him; and tecum, ipse est. it is he that talketh with thee. 37. *Thou hast both seen.* The meaning is: Thou _seest_ Him, the Greek perfect having here the force of a present. See 1 John iii. 6. Christ’s reference to the man’s _seeing_, was doubtless designed to stimulate his gratitude, and help him to faith. 38. At ille ait: Credo Domine. 38. And he said: I believe, Et procidens adoravit eum. Lord. And falling down he adored him. 38. He *adored* Christ as God. Though the word προσεκύνησεν, which is here rendered “adored,” does not, in our opinion, necessarily imply supreme worship in the Greek of either the Old or New Testament,(71) still the context here determines it to that meaning. For Christ had just declared Himself to be the Son of God, and it is _as such_ the man worships Him. 39. Et dixit Iesus: In 39. And Jesus said: For iudicium ego in hunc mundum judgment I am come into this veni: ut qui non vident world, that they who see not, videant, et qui vident caeci may see: and they who see, may fiant. become blind.