João 1
H.A. Ironside · Citado em PreceptAustin
João 1:2
Ironside - The next sentence might seem to be almost a repetition: “The same was in the beginning with God.” But it really adds to what has already been put before us. It tells us of His unchanging personality. He was the same from all eternity; that is, He was the Eternal Son. He did not become the Son when He was born into the world, but “The Father sent the Son to be the Saviour” (1John 4:14). He did not become the Son after He was sent, He was the Son from the beginning. (John 1 Commentary) F F Bruce however sees Jn 1:2 as more than a repetition of John 1:1 - This might appear to be little more that a repetition of the second clause of Jn 1:1, but it is more than that. This divine Word of whom I speak, the Evangelist implies, is the one who, according to the earlier Scriptures, was with God in the beginning; he is probably referring to passages where divine wisdom is personified and described as being present and active at the creation of the world. Thus, in Pr 8:22-31 Wisdom claims to have been the Creator's master workman. The Evangelist makes it plain that the Word of which he speaks is also the Wisdom David J McLeod has some interesting comments on Jn 1:2 - Most commentators assume that verse 2 (“He was in the beginning with God”) merely repeats verse 1 (For example Godet, The Gospel of John, 1:248; Westcott, The Gospel according to St. John, 1:7; Bernard, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to St. John, 1:3; Beasley-Murray, John, 11; Carson, The Gospel according to John; and Morris, The Gospel according to John, 70), stressing that the Word is eternal. However, it is likely that John meant more than that.67 In this verse John answered a question prompted by certain mysterious elements of the Old Testament revelation. The Old Testament personified divine wisdom, that is, it sometimes spoke of wisdom as if it were a person. For example in Proverbs 8:22–31 wisdom speaks as the master craftsman through whom God created the earth. “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth … then I was beside Him” (vv. 22, 30). The λόγος of which John wrote is the wisdom described in Old Testament times. Λόγος and wisdom alike became incarnate in Jesus Christ. John 1:2 also answers the Creator’s rhetorical question in Isaiah 44:24: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth—Who was with me?” (RSV). John answered, in essence, “He—the λόγος, Christ—was with God the Father!” The Greek text uses a pronoun to emphasize the point: “This one (houtos) i.e., the λόγος, was with God.” When God said in Genesis 1:26, “Let Us make man,” to whom was He speaking? John answered, “This One, i.e., the λόγος, who was in the beginning with God!” And then there is Agur’s question about the transcendence of God: “Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name or His son’s name?” (Pr 30:4). Interpreters have puzzled over the identity of this figure.71 In Agur’s words “the NT doctrine of the Son of God [was] announcing itself from afar.” This one, the λόγος, according to John, is the Son of whom Agur spoke. (The Eternality and Deity of the Word- John 1:1-2) Marcus Dods says that Jn 1:2 is "Not a mere repetition of what has been said in John 1:1. There John has said that the Word was in the beginning and also that He was with God: here he indicates that these two characteristics existed contemporaneously. “He was in the beginning with God.” He wishes also to emphasize this in view of what he is about to tell. In the beginning He was with God, afterwards, in time, He came to be with man. His pristine condition must first be grasped, if the grace of what succeeds is to be understood." (John 1 Commentary) A W Pink on He ("the same" or "this one") was in the beginning with God - The “same,” that is, the Word; “was,” that is, subsisted, not began to be; “in the beginning,” that is, before time commenced; “with God,” that is, as a distinct Personality. That it is here repeated Christ was “with God,” seems to be intended as a repudiation of the early Gnostic heresy that Christ was only an idea or ideal IN the mind of God from eternity, duly made manifest in time—a horrible heresy which is being reechoed in our own day. It is not said that the Word was IN God; He was, eternally, “WITH God.” (John 1:1-13 Christ the Eternal Word) Marvin
João 1:3
Ironside - Apart from Him there is no life. He is the fountain of life, and that includes both natural and spiritual life. All natural life comes from Him, and concerning spiritual life it is written, “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John 5:12). That life was seen in all its perfection in Him as Man on earth. “The life was the light of men.” As He moved about in this scene, He cast light on every man, showing things up as God Himself sees them. (John 1 Commentary) Steven