John 1:9-18

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:9-14

9-14. Having secured us from confounding him with another being, the Evangelist now traces the Logos as entering, operating, and dwelling in our living world. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:10

10. He was in the world This clause confirms the interpretation just given of the previous verse, which refers the coming into the world to the Logos. Made by him The Creator came into the world which he had created, but was unrecognized by the world; partly because he was disguised in the incarnation, and partly because the world, that is, the natural heart of man, refused to use the light mentioned in the ninth verse, and so became the darkness which comprehended not the light. read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:11

11. To his own This word own is in the plural neuter, and signifies own things, possessions, or properties. The second own is in the plural masculine, and signifies his own living beings; that is, men. As the landlord comes to his own estates, but his own tenants receive him not, so the Logos came to his own world of things, and his own world of creatures, men, did not receive him. This does not refer to his rejecters as Jews or as his countrymen, but to men, as his own... read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:12

12. But There were happy exceptions. Power Not so much ability as right, prerogative. Sons Rather, children. His name Which stands for all that his name comprehends. Our faith must embrace Christ in his fulness. And with how transcendent a fulness does the Evangelist’s description endow him! To receive him is faith in act. It is not, as Olshausen says, a mere susceptibility, but an activity; an appropriation of Christ by a free putting forth of the will. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:13

13. Which were born Though the term regeneration but seldom appears in Scripture, yet the terms which variously express it are abundant. Not of blood As the blood of the parent flows into the veins of the offspring. Nor of the will of the flesh Nor from the carnal impulse of sensual nature. Nor of the will of man Though the will of man be a previous condition upon which God regenerates, the will of man does not regenerate either another man or himself. Self-regeneration is an... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:14

14. Word was made flesh So that which in the first verse was God, now is made flesh, God incarnate. He is made flesh not by ceasing to be Logos or God, but by investing himself with humanity. He does not become body, for that might imply that the Logos was the proper soul of the body and the substitute for a human soul. The incarnate is one Christ, perfect man and perfect God. Dwelt among us There are in the Old Testament appearances of the angel-Jehovah, which have every proof of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:15

15. John bare witness of him Our Evangelist adduces the Baptist’s testimony not to prove (as he will in John 1:19-34) that Jesus, and not himself, was the Messiah; but to prove what he is just now saying, that the Messiah was truly of this exalted nature. And cried The great truth was maintained with a cry; a lofty voice that made the wilderness ring. Cometh after me… preferred before me Put in the form of a paradox; my successor is my predecessor. He is my successor in time, my... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:16

16. Of his fulness Namely, of grace and truth, as mentioned in John 1:14. All we received This all embraces all men; being spoken in our character as men. Grace for grace Grace additionally bestowed for grace improved. As light previously implanted by the Logos in man is necessary for his reception of light, so grace fundamentally bestowed upon man is the basis of all his possible reception of further grace. But that first grace ”a gracious ability” must be exerted by the... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:17

17. The law was given by Moses The law is the expression of absolute justice, which in itself knows not grace nor mercy. This was given from God to men by Moses; but if there were nobody better than Moses, we should have had nothing but law alone. There would have been no grace to bring salvation from its penalty; no consequent truth to reveal that grace. These came, even into the Old Testament dispensation, by Jesus Christ. All the mixture of grace with law in the Old... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:18

18. No man hath seen God… Son hath declared him The Evangelist winds up this exordium as he began it, with the declaration that the Son, like the Word, is the manifest God, revealing the God invisible and unknowable. In the 17th verse the Son gives, reveals, grace and truth; in the 18th he is the declarer or revealer of the infinite Unseen. The only begotten This begetting is as truly figurative as the utterance of the Word is figurative. Derivation and infinite wisdom are expressed in... read more

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