But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
I.e. had been blind, and now saw.
As if to say, We might justly be compelled to speak for an infant, that could not speak for itself: but he, though blind from his birth, has been always able to speak.
It was no disadvantage to be put out of the synagogue: whom they cast out, Christ took in.
