In him: i.e. in this word, or Son of God, was life; because he give life to every creature. Or, as Maldonatus expounds it, because he is the author of grace, which is the spiritual life of our souls. --- And the life was the light of men, whether we expound it of a rational soul and understanding, which he gives to all men; or of the spiritual life, and those lights of graces, which he gives to Christians. (Witham)
JOHN 1:4 h=n {A} In order to relieve the difficulty of meaning when o] ge,gonen (ver. John 1:3) is taken as the subject of h=n (“that-which-has-come-into-being in him _was_ life...
JOHN 1:3-4 ouvde. e[n) o] ge,gonen evn {B} Should the words o] ge,gonen be joined with what goes before or with what follows? The oldest manuscripts (î66, 75* a* A B) have no punctuation here, and in...
Verse John 1:4. _IN HIM WAS LIFE_] Many MSS., versions, and fathers, connect this with the preceding verse, thus: _All things were made_ _by him, and without him was nothing made. What was made had l...
IN HIM WAS LIFE - The evangelist had just affirmed John 5:3 that by the λόγος Logos or “Word” the world was originally created. One part of that creation consisted “in breathing into man the breath o...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word; His Glory and His Manifestation -- Chapter 1:1-2:22 CHAPTER 1 __ 1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
THE PROLOGUE: See Introduction. JOHN 1:1. THE WORD IN RELATION TO GOD AND CREATION. The references to the language and thought of _Genesis 1_ are clear. At the time of creation, if the phrase may be...
IN HIM WAS LIFE, AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN. Here is. grand affirmation. He is. fountain of life from whence life flows like. river. From him life flowed in the beginning. Man can construct the...
THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
When the world had its beginning, the Word was already there; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God. This Word was in the beginning with God. He was the agent through whom all things were ma...
LIFE. Greek. _zoe._ App-170.: i.e. the fountain of life. Hence 1Jn 5:11, 1 John 5:12, and Psalms 36:8, manifested (John 1:4); obtained (John 3:16); possessed ...
John 1:1-18. The Prologue or Introduction That the first eighteen verses are introductory is universally admitted: commentators are not so unanimous as to the main divisions of this introduction. A d...
_In him was life_ He was the well-spring from which every form of life physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, eternal flows. See on John 5:26. Observe how frequently S. John's thoughts overlap and...
ἘΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι ΖΩΉ. He was the well-spring of life, from which every form of life—physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, eternal,—flows. Observe how frequently S. John’s thoughts overlap and run into...
1–18. The Prologue or Introduction in three parts. 1–5: The Word in His own nature. 6–13: His Revelation to men and rejection by them. 14–18: His Revelation of the Father. The three great characterist...
THE WORD IN HIS OWN NATURE ἘΝ�. _In the beginning_. The meaning must depend on the context. In Genesis 1:1 it is an act done ἐν�; here it is a Being existing ἐν�, and therefore prior to all beginning....
VER 4A. IN HIM WAS LIFE. BEDE; The Evangelist having said that every creature was made by the Word, lest perchance any one might think that His will was changeable, as though He willed on a sudden to...
_THE ETERNAL "WORD" OF GOD IS JESUS-- JOHN 1:1-18:_ Jesus is pictured as "the Word" who was in the beginning with God. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....
ΖΩΉ (G225) жизнь. Право и сила даровать жизнедеятельность, оживлять. Здесь речь идет об одной конкретной части творения: человечестве (Lightfoot). Все, что сотворено, постоянно обязано ему своим сущес...
IN HIM WAS LIFE,— The most ancient fathers who quote this text, so generally join the words at the end of the last verse, ο γεγονεν, which we render _that was made,_ with this 4th verse; and St. John...
THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF THE WORD DESCRIBED _Text 1:1-5_ 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things wer...
EXPOSITORY SERMON NO. 1 THE BIRTH OF CHRIST INTERPRETED John 1:1-18 _Introduction_ I. TELL BIRTH STORY BRIEFLY (Luke 2:1-52). A. John's Prologue gives the definition of Christmas. B. Especiall...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:1-13 In the last chapter we stated, "Each book of the Bible has a prominent and dominant theme which is peculiar to itself. Just as each member in the human bo...
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. IN HIM WAS LIFE. From simple creation, or calling into existence, the Evangelist now advances to a higher idea-the communication of life. But he...
As God always was, there is no absolute beginning brought before us in the Scriptures. Both here and in Gen.11 the article _ the _ is lacking in the originals, showing that it refers to the commenceme...
1:4 men. (d-12) This latter is a reciprocal proposition, i.e. it can also he read 'the light of men was the life.'...
THE DIVINITY AND INCARNATION OF THE WORD. WITNESS OF JOHN. THE FIRST DISCIPLES 1-18. Preface, declaring (1) that the Word was God, (2) that He was made man, (3) that He revealed the Father. This subl...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ THE AUTHOR Most people agree that John, Jesus’ *disciple, wrote the 4th *Gospel. John’s father was called Zebedee. And John had...
IN HIM WAS LIFE. — The creation, the calling into existence life in its varied forms, leads up to the source of this life. It is in the Word by original being, while of the highest creature made “in t...
CHAPTER 2 RECEPTION CHRIST MET WITH. John 1:1. In describing the Word of God, John mentions two attributes of His by which His relation to men becomes apparent: “All things were made by Him,” and “t...
CHAPTER 1 THE INCARNATION. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was no...
ἐν αυτῷ ζωὴ ἦν. “In Him was life”; that power which creates life and maintains all else in existence was in the Logos. To limit “life” here to any particular form of life is rendered impossible by Joh...
_The Logos described_. The first five verses describe the pre-existence, the nature, the creative power of the Logos, who in the succeeding verses is spoken of as entering the world, becoming man, and...
THE LIGHT FOR THE NEW YEAR'S PATH John 1:1-13 The titles of our Lord are set forth in royal fashion. As speech reveals the hidden thoughts of men, so does our Lord utter the unseen God. God spake and...
The Gospel of John brings us into the profoundest facts concerning the Person of Jesus. The first eighteen verses constitute the introduction to the whole Book. The main declaration is found by bringi...
(i) In him (k) was life; and the life was (l) the light of men. (i) That is, by him: and this is spoken after the manner of the Hebrews, meaning by this that by his force and working power all life c...
JOHN'S GOSPEL You observe, thus far, not a word has been said about John's Gospel. Matthew, Mark, and Luke all wrote historically. Consequently, they go much together, most felicitously corroborating...
FIRST SECTION: THE LOGOS. 1:1-14. It would be difficult not to recognize in these first verses an allusion to the beginning of Genesis. The first words of the two writings manifestly correspond with e...
PROLOGUE: 1:1-18. EACH evangelist begins his book in a manner appropriate to the aim of his narrative. Matthew proposes to prove the _right_ of Jesus to the Messianic throne. He opens his story with H...
[See also the "General Considerations on the Prologue" in the comments of John 1:18.] VV. 4: “ _In Him there was life_, _and the life was the light of men._ ” A large number of authorities join with t...
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. What a beautiful account doth this verse give of Christ, when considered in connection with what went before. In him, that is, essentially, and in h...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
4._In him was life_. Hitherto he has taught us, that by _the Speech _of God _all things were created_. He now attributes to him, in the same manner, the preservation of those things which had been cre...
The first chapter asserts what He was before all things, and the different characters in which He is a blessing to man, being made flesh. He is, and He is the expression of, the whole mind that subsis...
IN HIM WAS LIFE,.... The Persic version reads in the plural number, "lives". There was life in the word with respect to himself; a divine life, the same with the life of the Father and of the Spirit;...
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. Ver. 4. _In him was life_] As he created, so he quickeneth and conserveth all, being the Prince and principle of life, Acts 3:15; both of natural l...
_In him_ Or, _through him_, as Beza understands it; _was life_ He was the living and powerful Word, which was the source of life to every living creature, as well as of being to all that exists. _And...
IN HIM WAS LIFE; he is the author and sustainer of all created natural and spiritual life. THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN; the Word is the light and life of men absolutely; since every kind of light an...
THE PROLOGUE OF THE GOSPEL. The introduction:...
IN HIM WAS LIFE; AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN....
CHRIST THE LIVING WORD (vs.1-5) Revelation 19:13, speaking of the Lord Jesus, says, "His name is called the Word of God." As such He had no beginning: in the beginning He was there. In person He is...
1-5 The plainest reason why the Son of God is called the Word, seems to be, that as our words explain our minds to others, so was the Son of God sent in order to reveal his Father's mind to the world...
IN HIM WAS LIFE; in this Word was life corporal, spiritual, eternal; it was in him as in the fountain. Some understand this of corporal life, both in the first being and preservation of it; it is cert...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I We then alone, who first have touched the confines of life, are already perfect; and we already live who are separated from death. Salvation, accordingly,...
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THE WORD WAS GOD (JOHN 1:1). John commences his Gospel by speaking of ‘the Word' (i.e. the One through Whom God has acted and spoken'), and later he adds, ‘all things were made by Him' (John 1:3) and...
The content of Jonah's prophecy, which is described in the usual terms of ‘the word of YHWH', is depicted as being that YHWH wanted the wickedness of Nineveh to be brought to the attention of its peop...
‘In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.' It is now emphasised that the Word was not only the Creator but as such was the source of life, because in the beginning it was He Who created lif...
The Prologue of the Gospel of John stands in the most intimate connection with the plan and purpose of the Gospel as a whole. It is not to be regarded as a philosophical speculation to which the histo...
John 1:3. ALL THINGS CAME INTO BEING THROUGH HIM, AND APART FROM HIM NOT EVEN ONE THING CAME INTO BEING. Such a combination of two clauses, the first positive, the second negative (see note on John 1:...
IN HIM WAS LIFE (εν αυτω ζωη ην). That which has come into being (verse John 1:3) in the Logos was life. The power that creates and sustains life in the universe is the Logos. This is what Paul mean...
John 1:4 I. In Christ was life, and that life was the _light_of men. We consider these words as marking such a derivation to ourselves of that life, that immortality which was in the Word, as can neve...
John 1:4 God's Self-revelation through Life. I. This Scripture opens to us God's living way of making Himself known on earth. The Bible is the record and interpretation of a way of creation and of li...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word,_ Christ the Word has existed from all eternity. He is the eternal Son of the eternal Father; he is really what Melchisedec was metaphorically, «having neithe...
May the Holy Spirit, who inspired these words, inspire us through them as we read them! John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ The divine Logos, whom we know as the Christ of God. «In the beginn...
John is the majestic Evangelist; he is the high-soaring eagle with the piercing eye. His is the Gospel of the Son of God. John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the...
CONTENTS: Deity of Christ. Ministry of John the Baptist. Jesus announced as the Lamb of God, and the first converts to Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, John the Baptist, Moses, Elias, Isaiah, Pharisees,...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ Εν αρχη ο λογος. John begins the new creation with the words of Moses of the old creation, and continues to speak of Christ in the running language of all th...
THE WORD WAS THE SOURCE OF LIFE. Compare John 5:26; John 11:25. The _power_ which creates life and supports all Creation is in the Word (Hebrews 1:3). AND THIS LIFE BROUGHT LIGHT TO MEN. That _life_ r...
_In the beginning was the Word_ I. THE APOSTLE ASSERTS THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST. 1. His name: the Word. (1) He is the chief subject of Revelation--the Word of promise--the substance of all shadows,...
_In Him was life, and the life was the light of men._ The life which Christ lived was so radiant that it fills our lives with light. It was God-life, without pause or interruption. I. CHRIST THE TRU...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:4 The references to LIFE, LIGHT, and DARKNESS draw on language found in Genesis 1:1 (com
JOHN 1:1 Prologue: The Incarnate Word. John presents Jesus as the eternal, preexistent, and now incarnate Word (vv. John 1:1, John 1:14). Jesus is the one-of-
THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO JOHN. T HIS is the title in the Greek and Latin codices. In the Syriac it is as follows, _The Holy Gospel, the Preaching of Jouchanon_ (John), _which...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 1:1. IN THE BEGINNING, etc.—ἐν�. The בְּרֵאשִׁית etc., of Genesis 1 denotes the beginning of that movement of the divine creative energy from which sprang the vis...
EXPOSITION THE title of the book is differently given in the manuscripts and ancient versions, and the differences are so considerable that they cannot be referred to the original text. The simplest f...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the gospel according to John. The gospel of John was the last of the gospels that were written. It was written towards the close of that first century, written by John,...
1 Corinthians 15:45; 1 John 1:2; 1 John 1:5; 1 John 5:11; Acts 26:23;
In Him was life [ε ν α υ τ ω ζ ω η η ν]. He was the fountain of life - physical, moral, and eternal - its principle and source. Two words for life are employed in the New Testament : biov and zwh. The...
SEEING CHRIST IN JOHN John 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is not difficult for us to find the Lord Jesus in the Book of John. We have always been told that John, by the Holy Ghost, sets forth the Deity...
VISIONS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST John 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Four Gospels present the Lord Jesus Christ under four distinct aspects. The Gospel of John tells us of Christ, in His all-glorious D...
In him was life — He was the foundation of life to every living thing, as well as of being to all that is. And the life was the light of men — He who is essential life, and the giver of life to all th...
Here we have. farther proof of Christ's divinity, and an evidence that he had. being as God, before his incarnation: forasmuch as life is centered in him, communicated by him, and derived from him. In...