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Joh 1:5. Καὶ, and) From this verse the doctrine of evil and its rise, receives much light.-ἐ τῇ σκοτίᾳ, in darkness) This darkness is not said to be made. For it is a privation, which men have incurred [To wit, that state of the human race is expressed by this word, which has prevailed since Adams transgression down to the appearance of the true Light.-V. g.] It is in the darkness that the glory of the Light is the more conspicuously seen.-φαίνει, shines) The present time has the same force as in φωτίζει, Joh 1:9. It always φαίνει, shineth. The Light was always nigh at hand, even in the Old Testament, ready to apply a remedy to darkness and sin. The same word φαίνει, shineth, as regards the New Testament, 1Jn 2:8, “The darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.”-καὶ-οὐ, and-not) Similarly and-not, Joh 1:10-11.-ἡ σκοτία, the darkness) i.e. men wrapt in darkness.-αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν, [comprehended it not] did not attain to it) Men, it seems, were too much averse from the Light, as well as too deeply sunk in darkness. When they did not comprehend the λόγον ἄσαρκον, The Word unclothed in flesh, “He was made flesh,” Joh 1:14.