Their complaint was the occasion of calling up clearly in the Baptist's own consciousness the relation in which he stood to Jesus, and of prompting the most emphatic Enouncement of the unrivalled dignity of our Lord.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
The mere sound indeed of these words is air in motion and therefore a body but the meaning of them is not a body but an Enouncement about a body, which is quite a different thing.
"A Little Book of Stoicism"
St George Stock