Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
Ver. 9. How can these things be?] Christ had told him that the manner of the Spirit's working is incomprehensible, and yet he is at it, How can these things be? Sed scribo haec frustra (saith Luther in a certain letter of his to Melancthon) quia tu secundum philosophiam vestram, has res ratione regere, hoc est, ut ille ait, cum ratione insanire pergis.