{After the flesh} (kata t(886e) sarka). According to the
standards of the flesh ( 2Co 5:16 ). The Baptist had said: "There
stands one among you whom ye know not" ( Joh 1:26 ). The Light of
the World had come, but they loved darkness rather than light
( 3:19 ), because the god of this age had blinded their thoughts
so that they could not see the illumination of the gospel of the
glory of Christ who is the image of God ( 2Co 4:4 ).