Matthew Poole and continuators on John 8:41

41 You do the deeds of your father . Then said they to him, VVe be not born of fornication, we have one father, even God .

You imitate him who is indeed your father, by whom our Saviour (as we shall hear more afterwards) meaneth the Devil.

This they fume at, and tell him, They were not born of Fornication, which is in our English Dialect, as much as, We are no Bastards; but it hath another sense in this place, as appeareth by the next words.

We have one Father, even God. That is, we own and Worship one God who is our Father; which makes very good Interpreters think, that their meaning in those words, We are not born of Fornication, is, We are no Idolaters: Idolatry in Holy Writ being very ordinarily compared to Whoredome and Fornications.

Marginal references: Isa. 63, 16. & 64.8. Mal. 1.6.