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THE SAME - The Word, or the λόγος Logos.
WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD - This seems to be a repetition of what
was said in the first verse; but it is stated over again to “guard
the doctrine,” and to...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word;
His Glory and His Manifestation
-- Chapter 1:1-2:22
CHAPTER 1
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1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
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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...
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THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. John reiterates. part of his
first statement, partly for emphasis, and partly to bring out the
thought that there is. real distinction between the Word and the...
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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.
The beginning of John's gospel is of such impor...
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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...
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THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
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THE SAME. This [Word], or He....
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_The same_ More literally, HE or THIS (Word), with emphasis (comp.
John 7:18). This verse takes up the first two clauses and combines
them. Such recapitulations are characteristic of S. John....
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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...
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ΟΥ̓͂ΤΟΣ ἮΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. Takes up the first two clauses and
combines them. Such recapitulations are characteristic of S. John.
Οὗτος, HE or THIS (Word), illustrates S. John’s habit of using
a demonstrative p...
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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....
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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...
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Ver 2. The same was in the beginning with God. HILARY; Whereas he had
said, the Word was God, the fearfulness, and strangeness of the speech
disturbed me; the prophets having declared that God was One...
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_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....
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ΟΎΤΟΣ (G3778) _указат. prop. пот. masc._ этот.
Относится ко всему предыдущему
определению, акцентируя его (Westcott)....
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THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD.— The Socinians, who have
laboured hard to subvert the authority of this stubborn portion of
scripture, most perversely understand this passage of Christ's being...
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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...
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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.
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The same was in the beginning with God.
3
All things wer...
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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...
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The same was in the beginning with God.
THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. Here the first and second
statements are combined into one; emphatically reiterating the eternal
distinctness of the...
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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...
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1:2 _ He_ (c-1) In John, the personal pronoun, generally emphatic in
Greek where inserted, is used so constantly that it can hardly be
considered such in many cases, but certain instances which are
c...
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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...
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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...
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THE SAME WAS. — This is a summary in one clause of the three
assertions made in the first verse.
THE SAME, that is, the Word who was God, existed before any act of
creation, and in that existence was...
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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...
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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...
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οὑτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν. Not a
mere repetition of what has been said in John 1:1. There John has said
that the Word was in the beginning and also that He was with God: here
he indicates that th...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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_The same was in the beginning with God. In the text is only, "this
was in the beginning;" but the sense and construction certainly is,
this word was in the beginning. (Witham)_...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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[See also the "General Considerations on the Prologue" in the comments
of John 1:18.]
VV. 2. “ _This Word was in the beginning with God._ ”
With this Logos which John has in a manner just discovered...
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The same was in the beginning with God, (3) All things were made by
him; and without him was not anything made that was made.
These words throw a further light upon the verse before, and
considered in...
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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...
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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...
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THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. This is a repetition of what
is before said, and is made to show the importance of the truths
before delivered; namely, the eternity of Christ, his distinct
per...
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The same was in the beginning with God.
Ver. 2. _The same was in the beginning_] In the instant of creation,
as Genesis 1:1, therefore also before the creation, therefore from
eternity, Eph 1:4; 1 Pe...
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_In the beginning_ Namely, of the creation, (for the evangelist
evidently refers to the first word of the book of Genesis,
בראשׁית, _bereshith_, rendered by the LXX. εν αρχη, the
expression here used,...
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THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD....
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THE PROLOGUE OF THE GOSPEL.
The introduction:...
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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...
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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...
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These words of the evangelist are a further confirmation and
explication of what the evangelist had said before; asserting the
eternity of the Son, and his relation to the Father, and oneness of
essen...
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Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ
For its salvation is endangered, not by its being ignorant of itself,
but of the word of God. "The life," says He, "was manifested,"[179]
Hippolytus Refutation of A...
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John 1:2 He G3778 was G2258 (G5713) in G1722 beginning G746 with G4314
God G2316...
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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...
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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...
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‘And the Word was with God.' ‘With God' in the Greek is ‘pros
ton theon' i.e. ‘towards God', signifying close relationship. It
reflects more than just being ‘with God'. We might translate ‘face
to fac...
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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...
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John 1:2. THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. ‘The same' He who
has just been spoken of as God was in the beginning ‘with God':
_i.e.,_ ‘He of whom I have spoken as God, was in the beginning in
ac...
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THE SAME
(ουτος). "This one," the Logos of verse John 1:1, repeated for
clarity, characteristic of John's style. He links together into one
phrase two of the ideas already stated separately, "in th...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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BEFORE THE WORLD WAS CREATED. The brief time from the Virgin Birth in
Bethlehem to the Ascension from the Mount of Olives must be understood
in its relationship to the WHOLE of the Son of God. Read wh...
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_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,...
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_The same was in the beginning with God._
This repetition teaches
I. HOW LITTLE ABLE WE ARE TO COMPREHEND THIS GREAT MYSTERY, which we
can but take in by little and little, and must put that togethe...
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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-
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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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The same [ο υ τ ο ς]. Literally, this one; the one first named;
the Word. Was in the beginning with God. In ver. 1 the elements of
this statement have been given separately : the Word, the eternal
bei...
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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...
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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...
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The same was in the beginning with God — This verse repeats and
contracts into one the three points mentioned before. As if he had
said, This Word, who was God, was in the beginning, and was with God....