JOHN 12:41 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.”
Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus' glory and spoke about him — John claims that Isaiah 6 (which describes the prophet's vision of the Lord in the Temple) was actually a vision of Christ's glory. This Christological reading of the OT is characteristic of John's high Christology, understanding Jesus as the pre-incarnate Lord whom the prophets encountered.
Church Fathers on John 12:41
And thus the Evangelist tacitly explains it, when he adds, But though He had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on Him.
He means the miracles related above. It was no small wickedness to disbelieve against such miracles as those.
It is evident here that the arm of the Lord is the Son of God Himself. Not that the Father has a human fleshly form; He is called the arm of the Lord, because all things v ere made by Him. If a man had power of such a kind, as that without any motion of his body, what he said was forthwith done, the word of that man would be his arm. Here is no ground to justify, however, the error of those who say that the Godhead is one Person only, because the Son is the arm of the Father,…
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