“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it — Jesus names the true father of those who oppose him: the devil (diabolos). The devil is characterized as 'a murderer from the beginning' (ek tēs archēs, from the creation), having refused to stand in the truth. When the devil speaks lies, he 'speaks of his own' (ek tōn idiōn)—lies originate in his nature. He is 'the father of it' (the father of lying). The characterization establishes that opposition to Jesus through lies and murder flows from the devil's nature being worked through human agents.
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