Verse 4
In him was life - Many MSS., versions, and fathers, connect this with the preceding verse, thus: All things were made by him, and without him was nothing made. What was made had life in it; but This Life was the light of men. That is, though every thing he made had a principle of life in it, whether vegetable, animal, or intellectual, yet this, that life or animal principle in the human being, was not the light of men; not that light which could guide them to heaven, for the world by wisdom knew not God, 1 Corinthians 1:21 . Therefore, the expression, in him was life, is not to be understood of life natural, but of that life eternal which he revealed to the world, 2 Timothy 1:10 , to which he taught the way, John 14:6 , which he promised to believers, John 10:28 , which he purchased for them, John 6:51 , John 6:53 , John 6:54 , which he is appointed to give them, John 17:2 , and to which he will raise them up, John 5:29 , because he hath the life in himself, John 5:26 . All this may be proved:
- From the like expressions; 1 John 5:11 , This is the promise that God hath given unto us, eternal life, and this life is in his Son: whence he is styled the true God and eternal life, 1 John 5:20 ; the resurrection and the life, John 11:25 ; the way, the truth, and the life, John 14:6 .
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