Matthew Poole and continuators on John 8:57

57 Then said the Jews, Thou art not yet fifty years old , and hast thou seen Abraham ?

Christ was at this time but Three and thirty years old, and upward

they dream of Abrahams seeing him, and his seeing Abraham with bodily Eyes, of which Christ said nothing; that indeed had been a thing impossible: for Abraham was dead many hundred of years before Christ appeared in the Flesh to the World: neither doth our Saviour say, That he had seen Abraham, or that Abrah[illegible: 1 letter]m had seen him, but that he had seen his day, his coming in the Flesh, his Death, which Abraham had seen, not with bodily Eyes, but with the Eye of Faith.