And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? х hina (G2443) tuflos (G5185) genneethee (G1080)] - or 'should be born blind.' Since the doctrine of the pre-existence of souls, and that of the 'metempsychosis' (the transmission of the soul of one person into the Body of another), though held by certain of the more philosophical Jews, was never a current belief of the people, we are not to understand the disciples here to refer to sin committed in a former state of existence; and probably it is but a loose way of concluding that sin somewhere had surely been the cause of this calamity.