The Pulpit Commentary on John 8:4

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Master—Teacher—this woman has been taken committing adultery, in the very act. ἐπαυτοφώρω originally meant in ipso furto, "in the very theft;" afterwards more generally in the commission of this particular sin.

The burning shame and bestial bluntness of the charge make no excuse or palliation possible.

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