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Joh 1:2. Οὗτος, He) He alone. The He comprises [includes in its application] the whole of the verse immediately preceding it, as He, in the 7th verse, comprises the 6th verse.-πρὸς τὸν Θεόν, with God) This, being repeated [from Joh 1:1], is now put in antithesis to His subsequent mission to men. The three weighty truths, put dividedly in the preceding verse, are repeated and brought together in one in this verse. He, the Logos, who was God, was in the beginning, and was with God. A remarkable antithesis, comp. Joh 1:14, as also 1Jn 2:1 [which contain the same antithetic contrast.]
the word
Was in the beginning God:
Was made flesh,
With God: And dwelt among us.
Moreover the very congeries of this second verse manifestly supports this antithesis, the appellation of Logos being intermitted between Joh 1:2; Joh 1:14.