John 1:4-5

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:3-5

3-5. Our Evangelist traces in beautiful climax the ascending stages of the creative work of the Logos; namely, as producing existence, life, consciousness, natural, moral, and spiritual. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:4

4. In him was life Life original and essential. For had he not possessed original life, neither life, nor motion, nor sense could have ever existed in the universe. And from his original life all other life is derived. And this life is more than mere existence. A thing may exist and yet have no life. Life is the opposite of death; existence is the opposite of annihilation or non-existence. Existence is at the bottom and is the basis, and life overlies it. And the life was... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:5

5. Light shineth in darkness Not only was there from the Logos a moral consciousness created in man’s original nature; but when, nevertheless, the moral and spiritual consciousness of men through sin again became dark and inert, the Logos, Christ, shed the beams of truth and love into it, unappreciated and unaccepted. This shining and rejecting existed in all ages; but specially during the incarnation, of which John is about to write. read more

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:3-5

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:4

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:5

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