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Joh 1:3. Πάντα, all things) A large word, by which the world, i.e. the whole totality of things created is denoted, Joh 1:10. All things, which are outside of God, were made; and all things which were made, were made by the Logos. Now at last the Theologian is come from the Being [Esse] of the Word to the Being made [Fieri] of all things. In verses 1, 2, is described [His] state before the world was made; in Joh 1:3, in the making of the world; in Joh 1:4, in the time of man’s innocency; in Joh 1:5, in the time of man’s degeneracy.-δἰ αὐτοῦ, by Him) In opposition to without Him.-ἐγένετο, were made) That in some measure is earlier than the κτίσις, founding of all things, and evidently implies, as an inference, the making of all things out of nothing. Thus the all things sounds as if it were something earlier than the ὁ κόσμος, the world, wholly completed, and especially mankind; to which John comes down in the 9th and 10th verses.-καὶ χωρίς, and without) This sentence expresses something more than that immediately preceding. The Subject is, Not even one thing: The Predicate is, without Him was made, which was made. And the ὃ, which, is evidently used similarly to the ὃ, 1Co 15:10, By the grace of God I am what I am.-οὐδὲ ἕν, not even one thing) However superlatively excellent.-ὃ γέγονεν, which was made) “after its kind:” Gen 1:11; Gen 1:21; Gen 1:24. The Preterite γέγονεν [is in existence] implies something more absolute than the Aorist ἐγένετο [was brought into existence], though in Latin both are expressed by factum est. Those fancies, which Artemonius, p. 333, 402, etc., invents according to his own theories, have been refuted, together with the theories themselves.