John 5:31-40 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.… As the apes in the story, who, finding a glow-worm on a very cold night, took it for a spark of fire, and heaped up sticks upon it to warm themselves by, but all in vain, so do they lose their labour that, in the warrantable search of Divine truth, busy themselves about sounds of words and incoherent Scripture sentences; when, partly from depravedness of mind, partly frown ignorance, partly from instability, suddenness, and haste, they make a snatch, and run away with that which looks somewhat like the sense of Scripture, and so deceive their own souls, crying out, like the mathematician in Athens, "I have found it, I have found it," when indeed they have found nothing to the purpose nor anything to the true information of themselves or others in the ways of God and goodness. Parallel Verses KJV: If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. |
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