Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Nicodemus answered, &c. "For the animal man" (such as Nicodemus at that time was) "perceiveth not the things of the Spirit" ( 1 Corinthians 2:14). Just as rustics do not understand scholastic questions.