No one has ever seen God. See 1 Timothy 6:16. Flesh and blood cannot look upon the Living God, The only One. See note on John 3:16. He has made him known. The Old Testament painted only a partial picture of God. In Jesus the Son we see the complete picture of God! See John 17:26.
JOHN 1:18 monogenh.j qeo,j {B} With the acquisition of î66 and î75, both of which read qeo,j, the external support of this reading has been notably strengthened. A majority of the Committee regarded...
Verse John 1:18. _NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME_] Moses and others _heard_ his voice, and _saw_ the cloud and the fire, which were the _symbols_ of his presence; but such a manifestation of God as...
NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME - This declaration is probably made to show the superiority of the revelation of Jesus above that of any previous dispensation. It is said, therefore, that Jesus “had...
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 FULL AND FINAL REVELATION. The work of the Logos culminated in what alone could give to men a complete and intelligible revelation, so far as man can grasp it, of the nature and being of God. The...
NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD, with bodily eyes, but he was manifested as the Word and at last the "only begotten Son hath declared him." "He that hath seen me," said Christ, "hath seen the Father. The Father...
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...
NO MAN: i.e. no human eye. Greek. _oudeis._ Compound of _ou._ App-105. HATH SEEN. Greek _horao._ App-133. THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. Lm. Tr. WI. Rm., with the Syriac, read "God (i.e. Christ) only begott...
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...
The Evangelist solemnly sums up the purpose of the Incarnation of the Logos to be a visible revelation of the invisible God. It was in this way that -the truth came through Jesus Christ," for the trut...
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 INCARNATE WORD’S REVELATION OF THE FATHER...
ΜΟΝ. ΘΕΌΣ (אBC1L) for ὁ μον. υἱὸς (AX, the secondary uncials, and all cursives except 33). Thus _no_ ancient Greek authority supports ὁ μον. υἱος, while μον. Θεός is supported by three great types, B,...
18. NO MAN HAS SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME; THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, WHICH IS IN THE BOSOM OF THE FATHER, HE HAS DECLARED HIM. ORIGEN; Heracleon asserts, that this is a declaration of the disciple, not of the...
_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....
ΘΕΌΣ (G2316) Бог. Использование сущ. без артикля подчеркивает Его природу, а не личность. Следовательно, никто не видел подлинной сути божественности (Теппу, 34). Основа этого лежит в Exodus 33:20. Во...
DISCOURSE: 1600 THE MANIFESTATION WHICH CHRIST HAS GIVEN OF THE FATHER John 1:18. _No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him_....
NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME;— Neither Moses nor any of the prophets, who in former ages delivered the will of God to men, ever saw the divine Being in his essence, and therefore they could not ma...
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...
THE WORD MANIFESTED TO OTHERS AND THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF HIM _Text 1:12-18_ 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:14-18 We first submit a brief Analysis of the passage which is to be before us—John 1:14-18. We have here:— 1. Christ’s Incarnation—"The word became flesh":...
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. NO MAN [`NO ONE' oudeis (G3762 )] HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME - that is, by immedia...
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...
1:18 in (f-14) _ Eis_ , not _ en_ . perhaps 'on.' The expression indicates the place where, or the state. see Acts 8:23 ; Mark 1:9 . In chap. 13 it is _ en_ in ver. 23, _ epi_ in ver. 25....
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...
THE PREFACE CONCLUDED. The 'we' of John 1:16 shows that these vv. are not words of the Baptist, but that they express the spiritual experience of Christ's disciples, in whose name the evangelist speak...
God the Father never reveals Himself to men directly, but always by and through His only-begotten Son. This was the case even before the Incarnation. It was God the Son who manifested Himself to the p...
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...
NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME. — The full knowledge of truth is one with the revelation of God, but no man has ever had this full knowledge. The primary reference is still to Moses (comp. Exodus 33...
John 1:15 CHAPTER 3 THE BAPTIST'S TESTIMONY. “There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe throug...
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...
_The manifestation of the Logos defined as Incarnation_....
θεὸν οὐδεὶς ἑώρακεν … ἐξηγήσατο. This statement, “God no one has ever seen,” is probably suggested by the words διὰ Ἰησοῦ χριστοῦ. The reality and the grace of God we have seen through Jesus Christ, b...
THE VOICE OF PROMISE John 1:14-28 Note that the Revised Version changes the words was _made_ to _became,_ John 1:14. Evidently Jesus had existed before this becoming; and evidently there was a proces...
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...
(10) No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the (e) bosom of the Father, he hath (f) declared [him]. (10) The true knowledge of God proceeds only from Jesus Christ. (e)...
_No man hath seen God. No mortal in this life by a perfect union and enjoyment of him. Nor can any creature perfectly comprehend his infinite greatness: none but his only begotten divine Son, who is i...
TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST John 1:6-51. _“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, that he may testify concerning the Light, in order that all may believe th...
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...
VER. 18. “ _No one has ever seen God; the only-begotten Son_, _who is in the bosom of the Father, he has revealed him to us._ ” The absence of a particle between John 1:17-18 is the proof of a very in...
THIRD SECTION: FAITH, 1:12-18. [See also the "General Considerations on the Prologue" in the comments of John 1:18.] The appearance of the Word, therefore, did not succeed in scattering the darkness...
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. (16) And of his fulness have all we received, and grace...
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...
_THE ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON_ ‘The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father.’ John 1:18 So writes John, in this glorious introduction to his Gospel. He is about to tell, in the following Ch...
_THE REVELATION OF GOD TO MAN_ ‘No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.’ John 1:18 What is meant by Revelation.—Etymologi...
18._No man hath ever seen God_. Most appropriately is this added to confirm the preceding statement; for the knowledge of God is the door by which we enter into the enjoyment of all blessings; and as...
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...
NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME,.... That is, God the Father, whose voice was never heard, nor his shape seen by angels or men; for though Jacob, Moses, the elders of Israel, Manoah, and his wife, ar...
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared _him_. Ver. 18. _The only begotten Son_] In the year of grace 1520, Michael Servetus, a...
John 1:18. "No man hath seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." God under the Old Testament gave the images of things the substance and...
_No man hath seen God at any time_ Nor, indeed, can see him as he is, an incorporeal, and, therefore, an invisible Being: but _the only- begotten Son_, &c. John, having spoken of the incarnation, now...
DECLARED HIM; revealed him. The apostle here teaches that all the revelations men have received of God, whether under the law or the gospel, had Jesus Christ for their source....
The closing testimony of the prologue:...
NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME; THE ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON, WHICH IS IN THE BOSOM OF THE FATHER, HE HATH DECLARED HIM. The glory of the Messiah, of the Word Incarnate, had been testified to even by John...
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...
15-18 As to the order of time and entrance on his work, Christ came after John, but in every other way he was before him. The expression clearly shows that Jesus had existence before he appeared on e...
NO MAN HAS SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME; no man hath at any time seen the essence of God with his eyes, 1 THESSALONIANS 4:24; nor with the eyes of his mind understood the whole counsel and will of God, Matthe...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians And there is also one Son, God the Word. For "the only-begotten Son," saith [the Scripture], "who is in the bosom of the Father."[12] Irenaeus Against Heresies...
John 1:18 one G3762 seen G3708 (G5758) God G2316 time G4455 begotten G3439 Son G5207 who G3588 is...
‘No man has seen God at any time. God only begotten, (or ‘the only begotten Son') who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.' Indeed he sums up by declaring that Jesus is the final rev...
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...
John 1:18. NO ONE HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME; ONE WHO IS ONLY BEGOTTEN GOD, HE THAT IS IN THE BOSOM OF THE FATHER, HE DECLARED HIM. It is not possible in a commentary such as this to defend the reading...
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...
NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME (θεον ουδεις εωρακεν πωποτε). "God no one has ever seen." Perfect active indicative of οραω. Seen with the human physical eye, John means. God is invisible (Exodus 3...
HATH SEEN GOD Compare (Genesis 32:20); (Exodus 24:10); (Exodus 33:18); (Judges 6:22); ...
John 1:18 What the God-Man reveals of God and man. I. The Man Christ Jesus came expressly to show us the Father. That is, He came to teach us that God is our Father, that whatever we see or can imagi...
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...
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 1:15. _John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me._ He was not before John in the order of hum...
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...
_No man hath seen God _ THE LIMITATIONS OF HUMAN VISION Some men have seen much, for all have not the same power of vision. Some have seen much more than others with I. THE NATURAL EYE. They have...
_John bare witness of Him_ THE PRE-EMINENCE OF CHRIST I. CHRIST’S SUPERIORITY TO JOHN THE BAPTIST. 1. John refers to and repeats previous testimonies, applying them to Him whom the congregation had...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:18 NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN GOD, that is, in a full and complete way (see John 6:46). THE ONLY GOD. Some ancient manuscripts say “the o
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...
_ Was made_ : not that the Word was changed into flesh, or flesh into the Word, for, as S. Chrysostom says, "far from that immortal nature is transmutation." For how could flesh become God, that is, h...
_No man hath seen God_, &c. He gives the reason why neither Moses, nor any one else, but Christ alone, hath taught us the perfect truth concerning God and Divine things _because_ He alone hath seen Go...
_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 John 4:12; 1 John 4:20; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:20; 1 Timothy 1:17;...
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...
No man hath seen God — With bodily eyes: yet believers see him with the eye of faith. Who is in the bosom of the Father — The expression denotes the highest unity, and the most intimate knowledge....
Why does John say no one has seen God when other verses declare we will see God? PROBLEM: On the one hand the Bible claims no one can see God, but on the other hand it says “Blessed are the pure in he...