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.