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He was in the world (en tōi kosmōi ēn). Imperfect tense of continuous existence in the universe before the Incarnation as in Joh 1:1 and Joh 1:2.
Was made by him (di' autou egeneto). “Through him.” Same statement here of “the world” (ho kosmos) as that made in Joh 1:3 of panta.
Knew him not (auton ouk egnō). Second aorist active indicative of common verb ginoskō, what Gildersleeve called a negative aorist, refused or failed to recognize him, his world that he had created and that was held together by him (Col 1:16). Not only did the world fail to know the Pre-incarnate Logos, but it failed to recognize him when he became Incarnate (Joh 1:26). Two examples in this sentence of John’s fondness for kai as in Joh 1:1, Joh 1:4, Joh 1:5, and Joh 1:14, the paratactic rather than the hypotactic construction, like the common Hebrew use of wav.