Matthew Poole and continuators on John 10:36

36 Say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world , Thou blasphemest : because I said , I am the Son of God ?

Suppose I were no more then a meer man, yet being Sanctified, that is, set apart of God for the special work of Mans Redemption; and sent of God into the World, with Commission both to reveal and to do his Will; yet dare you say, that I blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God.

In the place, viz Psal. 82.6. Where God said of Magistrates, ye are gods; He also added, all of you are Children of the most High; you have therefore no reason to rage at me, though I did say I was the Son of God; being one whom the Father hath in his Eternal Counsels set apart for this great and special Work; and actually by his Providence sent into the World for the finishing and dispatching of it. But we must take heed, that we do not understand our Saviour here, as if he in another sense assumed to him the Title of the Son of God; it was enough for him at present to assert, that the Title well enough belonged to him, if he indeed had been no more than the Son of Man, as they said.

Marginal references: Chap. 6.27.; Chap. 5.17, 18.; Luke 1.35.