John 1:2 - Exposition

The same Logos whom the writer has just affirmed to have been God himself, was , though it might seem at first reading to be incompatible with the first or third clause of the first verse, nevertheless in the beginning with God —"in the beginning," and therefore, as we have seen, eternally in relation with God. The previous statements are thus stringently enforced, and, notwithstanding their tendency to diverge, are once more bound into a new, unified, and emphatic utterance. Thus the αὐτός of the following sentences is charged with the sublime fulness of meaning which is involved in the three utterances of John 1:1 . The first clause