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Was manifested (ephanerōthē). First aorist passive indicative of phaneroō, to make known what already exists, whether invisible (B. Weiss) or visible, “intellectual or sensible” (Brooke). In Col 3:4 Paul employs it of the second coming of Christ. 1Jo 1:2 here is an important parenthesis, a mark of John’s style as in Joh 1:15. By the parenthesis John heaps reassurance upon his previous statement of the reality of the Incarnation by the use of heōrakamen (as in 1Jo 1:1) with the assertion of the validity of his “witness” (marturoumen) and “message” (apaggellomen), both present active indicatives (literary plurals), apaggellō being the public proclamation of the great news (Joh 16:25).
The life, the eternal life (tēn zōēn tēn aiōnion). Taking up zōē of 1Jo 1:1, John defines the term by the adjective aiōnios, used 71 times in the N.T., 44 times with zōē and 23 in John’s Gospel and Epistles (only so used in these books by John). Here lt means the divine life which the Logos was and is (Joh 1:4; 1Jo 1:1).
Which (hētis). Qualitative relative, “which very life.”
Was with the Father (ēn pros ton patera). Not egeneto, but ēn, and pros with the accusative of intimate fellowship, precisely as in Joh 1:1 ēn pros ton theon (was with God). Then John closes the parenthesis by repeating ephanerōthē.