Q. What may we suppose Christ wrote when he stooped down?
A. It is presumption to give the least guess, since God has not thought proper to reveal it to us.
Q. What may we learn from Christ’s stooping down, as though he heard them not?
A. That we ought to be unwilling to hear, and not take pleasure in hearing of our neighbour’s faults.
12.Q. How can it be said, that Jesus then spake again unto them, when it is said before, that they went out one by one?
A. Some have supposed, that the discourse which follows at this verse, was at another [♦]time; but if the word then should confine it to the present time, it may be reconciled thus. We may suppose where Christ was sitting, there was a vacant place to which the scribes and pharisees brought the woman, and in which Christ might stand alone with her. Now these being convicted one by one, (for it seems plain that Christ spoke only to them verse 7th) they might go out; while such as were there before the scribes and pharisees came might remain; and to them Christ proceeded with his discourse, and spake again on the point which he did, before he was interrupted.
[♦] “ime” replaced with “time”
31.Q. What learn you from our Saviour’s discourse with the Jews who believed on him?
A. That young converts ought to be exhorted to continue in well doing; and that perseverance only can denominate us true disciples.
39.Q. What learn you hence?