Matthew Poole and continuators on John 9:24

24 Then again called they the man that was blind and said unto him, Give God the praise, we know that this man is a sinner .

They were not able to obtain their design from the Parents of this poor man; now they again call him, and advise him to give glory to God. Thus far they spake well, if they had been hearty and serious in what they said: For the man indeed had great reason to give God the glory; by whose Power alone exerted by his Son Christ jesus, he had received his Sight; but Moral Actions are made good or bad by their ends; and if we consider the End of these wretched men in this action of theirs, wherein they perswaded the poor man to his duty, the words will appear to have been spoken from hearts minding nothing less than the glory of God, and out of a design to vilify and depretiate his Son; whereas God hath set up his Rest in his Son, and cannot be glorifyed but with, in, and through him; whom in the next words, they maliciously defame

not onely speaking of him contemptuously, calling him this man, but affirming him [non-Latin text not transcribed] not a Sinner onely, but a notorious, scandalous Sinner; as that Word imports.