Darby's translation notes (1890)
John 1:9
1:9 lightens (f-11) Or 'is light to every man.' Not 'enlightens,' but 'sheds its light upon.'
1:9 lightens (f-11) Or 'is light to every man.' Not 'enlightens,' but 'sheds its light upon.'
Verse John 1:9. _WHICH LIGHTETH EVERY MAN_] As Christ is the Spring and Fountain of all wisdom, so all the wisdom that is in man comes from _him_; the human _intellect_ is a ray from his brightness;...
THAT WAS THE TRUE LIGHT - Not John, but the Messiah. He was not a false, uncertain, dangerous guide, but was one that was true, real, steady, and worthy of confidence. A false light is one that leads...
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 WORK OF THE LIGHT BEFORE THE INCARNATION. But in truth the light, which lighteth every man, was always coming into the world. Possibly John 1:9 means that when John was witnessing, the true light...
THAT WAS THE TRUE LIGHT, WHICH LIGHTETH EVERY MAN THAT COMETH INTO WORLD. That was the _real_ light who enlightens all men. Christ is the universal light. The Revision reads, "There was the true light...
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...
THAT, &c. Render: [He] was the true (or very) Light, that which, coming into the world, lighteneth every man (without distinction). We should connect this "coming" with "the Light "(with Revised Versi...
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...
_That was_, &c. This verse is ambiguous in the Greek. Most of the Ancient Versions, Fathers, and Reformers agree with our translators. Many modern commentators translate THE TRUE LIGHT, WHICH LIGHTETH...
ἮΝ ΤῸ ΦΩ͂Σ Κ.Τ.Λ. Most Ancient Versions, Fathers, and Reformers take ἐρχόμενον with ἄνθρωπον, _every man that cometh into the world_; a solemn fulness of expression and not a weak addition. A number o...
THE WORD REVEALED TO MEN AND REJECTED BY THEM...
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...
VER 9. THAT WAS THE TRUE LIGHT WHICH LIGHTS EVERY MAN THAT COMES INTO THE WORLD. AUG. What Light it is to which John bears witness, he shows himself, saying, That was the true Light. CHRYS. Or thus;...
_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....
ΆΛΗΘΙΝΌΣ (G228) истинный, подлинный, настоящий. Свет Иоанна противопоставляется Свету Христа не как ложный, но как несовершенный, слабый. Христос являет совершенство Света, в сиянии которого все прочи...
DISCOURSE: 1595 CHRIST THE ONLY TRUE LIGHT John 1:9. _That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world_. AS in the material world there is but one source of light to all t...
THAT WAS THE TRUE LIGHT,— "The _true light_ of which he spake, _was_ Christ, even _that_ Sun of righteousness and source of truth, _which coming into the world, enlighteneth every man;_ dispersing his...
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 THE JEWSTHEIR REJECTION OF HIM _Text 1:6-11_ 6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. 7 The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, t...
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...
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. THAT WAS THE TRUE LIGHT, WHICH LIGHTETH EVERY MAN THAT COMETH INTO THE WORLD. So certainly this verse may be rendered ...
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...
THE PREFACE RESUMED. The true Light, Christ our Lord, existed even before His Incarnation, and enlightened every man, whether Jew or Gentile, born into the world. This important text teaches us that t...
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...
THAT WAS THE TRUE LIGHT. — The right rendering of this verse is uncertain. It would, probably, give a better sense to translate it, _The true Light which lighteth every man was coming into the world,...
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 historic manifestation of the Logos and its results_....
ἦν τὸ φῶς … εἰς τὸν κόσμον. ἦν stands first in contrast to the οὐκ ἦν of John 1:8. The light was not …: the light was … In this verse the light is also further contrasted with John. The Baptist was hi...
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...
(5) [That] was (p) the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. (5) When the Son of God saw that men did not acknowledge him by his works, although they were endued with under...
_He; that is John the Baptist, was not the true light: but the word was the true light. In the translation, it is necessary to express that the word was the true light, lest any one should think that...
CHAPTER 27 THE LEAVEN Matthew 13:33. _“He spake another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like unto leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, until all were leav...
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...
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...
SECOND SECTION: UNBELIEF. 1:5-11. This Logos, light of the world, appears in the world buried in the darkness of sin; He is not recognized and is rejected (John 1:5). And yet God had taken all precaut...
[See also the "General Considerations on the Prologue" in the comments of John 1:18.] VER. 9. “ _The true light, which enlightens every man, came into the world._ ” I think I must positively decide f...
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. The sense of this verse, which in itself, under divine teaching, is as plain as any portion of the word of God, by the per...
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...
9._The true light was_. The Evangelist did not intend to contrast _the true light _with _the false_, but to distinguish Christ from all others, that none might imagine that what is called _light _belo...
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...
THAT WAS THE TRUE LIGHT,.... Christ is that light, that famous and excellent light, the fountain of all light to all creatures; that gave light to the dark earth at first, and spoke light out of darkn...
_That_ was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Ver. 9. _Which lighteth every man, &c._] Or, that coming into the world, lighteth every man; all, with the light of rea...
John 1:9. "That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." There is not now, ever was, nor will be, any man in the world enlightened but by Jesus Christ. Every man that...
_There was a man sent from God_ The introducer of a new dispensation, the morning star, preceding the rise of the Sun of righteousness; _whose name was_ JOHN That is, _grace;_ a name fitly given to th...
LIGHTETH EVERY MAN; the meaning is, that all true knowledge is from Christ. As Jesus Christ is the light of the world, all who reject him walk in spiritual darkness, while those who follow him have th...
THAT WAS THE TRUE LIGHT, WHICH LIGHTETH EVERY MAN THAT COMETH INTO THE WORLD. There was, there came, there arose, there came into being, as the result of a special plan and purpose of God, a man, not...
John the Baptist and the Logos:...
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...
6-14 John the Baptist came to bear witness concerning Jesus. Nothing more fully shows the darkness of men's minds, than that when the Light had appeared, there needed a witness to call attention to i...
THAT WAS THE TRUE LIGHT: _true_ is sometimes opposed to what is false, EPHESIANS 4:25; sometimes to what is typical and figurative, 1 THESSALONIANS 1:17; sometimes to what is not original, and of itse...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians And of what man could it be said, "He was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world: He was in the world, and the world was made by Him,...
John 1:9 was G2258 (G5713) true G228 Light G5457 which G3739 light G5461 (G5719) every G3956 man...
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...
‘He was not the light, but came that he might bear witness of the light, which was the true light, which lights every man coming into the world.' The stress now is on the fact that John was not the li...
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 1:9. THERE WAS THE TRUE LIGHT, WHICH LIGHTETH EVERY MAN, COMING INTO THE WORLD. This almost literal rendering of the Greek will show how it is that these simple words have been so variously expla...
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...
THERE WAS (ην). Imperfect indicative. Emphatic position at the beginning of the sentence and so probably not periphrastic conjugation with ερχομενον (coming) near the end, though that is possible.T...
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...
THIS WAS THE REAL LIGHT. See John 12:46. God's final message to the world is through the Son (Hebrews 1:1-2)....
_That was the true Light_ THE TRUE LIGHT WHICH LIGHTETH EVERY MAN I. CHRIST IS THE TRUE LIGHT. This is seen when we reflect that 1. He is the source of all the knowledge we have of the Divine Being...
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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,...
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Who lighteth every man — By what is vulgarly termed natural conscience, pointing out at least the general lines of good and evil. And this light, if man did not hinder, would shine more and more to th...