Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"
can he enter the second time into his mothers womb, and be born? the Ethiopic version adds, "again"; and the Arabic version, "and then be born"; this he urges, as absurd, impracticable, and impossible; and which shows him to have been as yet a natural man, who could not receive nor discern spiritual things.