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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 1:4 - 1:4
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In Him was life - essentially and originally, as the previous verses show to be the meaning. Thus He is the Living Word, or, as He is called in 1Jo 1:1, 1Jo 1:2, “the Word of Life.”
the life ... the light of men - All that in men which is true light - knowledge, integrity, intelligent, willing subjection to God, love to Him and to their fellow creatures, wisdom, purity, holy joy, rational happiness - all this “light of men” has its fountain in the essential original “life” of “the Word” (1Jo 1:5-7; Psa 36:9).