Matthew Poole and continuators on John 9:38

38 And he said, Lord, I believe! and▪ he worshipped him :

Now is the Work of Faith with power wrought in his Soul; he saith, Lord, I do acknowledge and receive thee as the Son of God; I am fully perswaded, that thou art more than what thou art in thy External Form, and appearance, more than a meer man, and I give up my self to thee, to be ruled, and guided by thee.

And as a Testimony of this, he performed some Act of External Adoration to him. The Word signifies Prostration, He kneeled down to him; or he fell upon his face before him; we are not able to determine what particular act or posture of Adoration he used: but there is nothing plainer, than that it is to be understood of such a Divine Adoration and Homage as is due unto God alone, for it was such as Testified his Faith in him, as the Son of God, whom he had Professed, That he believed him to be, in the Words immedi [illegible: 2 letters]ely preceeding: although therefore the Word in the [illegible: 2 letters]eek be a word used sometimes to signifie that civil re [illegible: 2 letters]ect which men shew to their Superiors; yet it cannot [illegible: 1 word] so interpreted in this place, considering what went before.