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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...
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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...
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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 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...
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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...
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THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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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THE INCARNATE WORD’S REVELATION OF THE FATHER...
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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,...
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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...
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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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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...
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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_....
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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...
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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 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:...
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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":...
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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...
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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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1:18 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....
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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_The manifestation of the Logos defined as Incarnation_....
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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...
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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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(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)...
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_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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 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...
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_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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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The closing testimony of the prologue:...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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John 1:18 one G3762 seen G3708 (G5758) God G2316 time G4455 begotten
G3439 Son G5207 who G3588 is...
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‘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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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HATH SEEN GOD
Compare (Genesis 32:20); (Exodus 24:10); (Exodus 33:18); (Judges
6:22); ...
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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...
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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...
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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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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 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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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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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 pi...
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_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...
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_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...
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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
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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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_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...
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_ 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...
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THE
HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST,
ACCORDING TO JOHN.
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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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1 John 4:12; 1 John 4:20; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:20; 1 Timothy 1:17;...
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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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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....
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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...