John 1:4

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”), the tense of the verb was changed from imperfect to present (evstin) in a D Old Latin syr^c cop^{sa, fay} and many early ecclesiastical writers. The presence, however, of the second h=n (in the clause h` zwh. h=n to. fw/j) seems to require the first.