But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
Ver. 26. Ye believe not, because ye are not, &c.] Reprobates cannot believe, yea, they cannot but resist the external offers of God's grace. The word, sacraments, and all God's common temporal favours, are, in respect of external participation, communicated to them by way of concomitancy only, because they are intermixed with the elect.