Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
Ver. 15. Where is then the blessedness] q.d. There was a time when ye held yourselves happy in me, and blessed the time that ever ye saw and heard me. a Is the change now in me or in yourselves? Thus the Jews rejoiced in John for a season, but he soon grew stale to them, John 5:35. See the note there. Neutrum modo, mas modo vulgus.
a μακαρισμος, Beatitudinis praedicatio. Beza.