Matthew Poole and continuators on John 8:25

25 Then said they unto him, VVho art thou ? Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning .

What good Christian will not learn to contemn the slights and Reproaches of sinful men, when he readeth a company of Miscreants thus using their Lord and Master, saying to him, Who art thou? It is no wonder if the World which knew him not, doth not know us

The latter part of the verse as it lyes in the Greek, is exceeding difficult, word for word it is, The beginning▪ because also I speak unto you. Some think that our Saviour calleth himself The beginning. Others think the Noun is in this place put for an Adverb; of which we have many instances in Scripture, tho none as to this Noun; (but I shall leave those who desire satisfaction as to what is said by Criticks about this Verse, to what Mr. Pool hath Collected in his Synopsis Criticorum, and onely consider it as our Interpreters understood it) in which form it seemeth to be a mere slighting of them, as much as if he had said, I have often enough, even from the beginning, told you who I am; I can say no more to you upon that head than I have said. I am the same, and no other, than I at first told you I was.