ACC ~ John 8 v15

THEY SEE THE MAN, NOT GOD

AUGUSTINE: These Jews then saw the man; they neither perceived nor believed him to be God. TRACTATES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 36.3. [1]

[1] NPNF 1 7:208.

THEY JUDGE BADLY WHILE CHRIST DEFERS HIS JUDGMENT

CHRYSOSTOM: Just as living after the flesh means to live badly, so judging after the flesh is to judge badly…. And so he is saying that they judge unjustly. “But if we judge unjustly,” someone might say, then why do you not rebuke us? Why do you not punish us? Why do you not condemn us?” “Because,” Jesus says, “This is not what I came for.” This is the meaning of “I judge no one.” HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 52.2. [1]

[1] NPNF 1 14:188**.

JUDGMENT DEFERRED

AUGUSTINE: This question may be solved in two ways: I judge no man, that is, I do not judge him now. He says this elsewhere: “God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved.” [1] It is not that he abandons his justice but rather only defers it. Or, having said, “You judge according to the flesh,” he says immediately, “I judge no man.” He adds this to let you know that Christ does not judge according to the flesh, as people judged him. Therefore let no scruple of doubt remain in our heart against the faith that we hold and declare concerning Christ as judge. Christ is come first to save but then to judge. TRACTATES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 36.4. [2]

[1] Jn 3:17.

[2] NPNF 1 7:209*.