It is chiefly because we have not a perfect sympathy with goodness, and do not know its value, that we do not at once and universally acknowledge Christ.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Could he ask them to acknowledge him and trust in him for spiritual life?
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Indeed, they would have to acknowledge, if Kali again should ask them about it, that neither their fathers nor they ever had beheld anything like it.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz