While therefore it is quite true that Christ here rebuts the charge of blasphemy in His usual manner, not by directly affirming His Divine nature, but only by declaring that His office as God's representative gave Him as just a claim to the Divine name as the judges had, this circumstance cannot lead us to doubt the Divine nature of Christ, or prompt us to suppose He Himself was shy in affirming it, because the question is at once suggested whether the office He assumed is not one which only a Divine Person could undertake.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
And know that the transgression which rebuts By direct opposition any sin Together with it here its verdure dries.
"Divine-Comedy-Longfellow-s-Translation-Complete"
Dante Alighieri
And though I, no less cheerfully, grant that we have now living among us a creator of poetic romance immeasurably more inventive than they,-appealing to our credulity in portents the most monstrous, with a charm of style the most conversationally familiar,-still I cannot conceive that even that unrivalled romance-writer can so bewitch our understandings as to make us believe that, if Miss Mordaunt's cat dislikes to wet her feet, it is probably because in the prehistoric age her ancestors lived in the dry country of Egypt; or that when some lofty orator, a Pitt or a Gladstone, rebuts with a polished smile which reveals his canine teeth the rude assault of an opponent, he betrays his descent from a 'semi-human progenitor' who was accustomed to snap at his enemy.
"Kenelm Chillingly, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
