“If I had not come and spoken to them,” as the revealer of the Father, “they would not have sin,” they would still be ignorant of the Father, but would not have incurred the guilt which attaches to ignorance maintained in the presence of light. ἔχειν ἁμαρτίαν is Johannine, see John 15:24, John 19:11; 1 John 1:8. νῦν δὲ πρόφασιν οὐκ ἔχουσι περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν. “But now,” as I have come, “they have no excuse for,” etc., πρόφασιν, cf. Psalms 140:4 : “Incline not my heart προφασίζεσθαι προφάσεις ἐν ἁμαρτίαις ”.

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