“ For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. ”
The law was given - The Old Testament economy. The institutions under which the Jews lived. By Moses - By Moses, as the servant of God. He was the great legislator of the Jews, by whom, under...
The Full and Final Revelation. The work of the Logos culminated in what alone could give to men a complete and intelligible revelation, so far as man can grasp it, of the nature and being of God. T...
Moses. The first of 13 occurances in John ( John 1:17 ; John 1:45 ; John 3:14 ; John 5:45 ; John 5:46 ; John 6:32 ; John 7:19 ; John 7:22 ; John 7:22 ; John 7:23 ; John 8:5 ; John 9:28 ;...
17. For the Law was given by Moses. This is an anticipation, by which he meets an objection that was likely to arise; for so highly was Moses esteemed by the Jews that they could hardly re...
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. The law was given by Moses - Moses received the law from God, and through him it was given to the Jews, Acts 7:38 . But g...
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, &c.— The word εγενετο, rendered came, here implies, that grace and truth were exhibited, or appeared. This verse is delivered in opposition to the Eb...
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. The law is here placed in opposition both t...
The Divinity and Incarnation of the Word. Witness of John. The First Disciples 1-18. Preface, declaring (1) that the Word was God, (2) that He was made man, (3) that He revealed the Father. This...
The word “for” connects this verse by way of explanation with what has gone before. The Old Testament thought of grace and truth has been already present in John 1:14 . The fulness of these divine a...
Chapter 2 RECEPTION CHRIST MET WITH. John 1:1-18 . In describing the Word of God, John mentions two attributes of His by which His relation to men becomes apparent: “All things were made by Him...
the Voice of Promise John 1:14-28 Note that the Revised Version changes the words was made to became, John 1:14 . Evidently Jesus had existed before this becoming; and evidently there was...
The Gospel of John brings us into the profoundest facts concerning the Person of Jesus. The first eighteen verses constitute the introduction to the whole Book. The main declaration is found by bring...
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. (16) And of his fulness have all we received, and grace...
For the law was given by Moses ,.... Both moral and ceremonial. The moral law was given to Adam, in innocence, which having been broken, and almost lost out of the minds, and memories of men, was gi...
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Ver. 17. For the law, &c. ] Lex iubet, gratia iuvat. Petamus ut det, quod ut habeamus iubet, The law command, gr...
For the law Working wrath, and containing shadows; was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ Grace, opposed to the condemnation and wrath by the law, and truth, opposed to the...
CHRIST THE LIVING WORD (vs.1-5) Revelation 19:13 , speaking of the Lord Jesus, says, "His name is called the Word of God." As such He had no beginning: in the beginning He was there. In person...
John's Testimony to Christ. 15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is...
For the law was given by Moses; the law, moral and ceremonial, came not by Moses, but was given by Moses as God's minister and servant; that law by which no man can be justified, Romans 3:28 . I...
The content of Jonah's prophecy, which is described in the usual terms of ‘the word of YHWH', is depicted as being that YHWH wanted the wickedness of Nineveh to be brought to the attention of its peo...
EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 1:1 . In the beginning, etc.—ἐν�. The בְּרֵאשִׁית etc., of Genesis 1 denotes the beginning of that movement of the divine creative energy from which sprang...
grace Grace. Summary: (1) Grace is "the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man. . . Not by works of righteousness which we have done" ( Titus 3:4 ); ( Titus 3:5 ). It is, theref...
John 1:17 I. We have here the special glory of the contents of the Gospel, heightened by the contrast with law. Law has no tenderness, no pity, no feeling. Tables of stone and a pen of iron are it...
John 1:1 . In the beginning was the Word, Christ the Word has existed from all eternity. He is the eternal Son of the eternal Father; he is really what Melchisedec was metaphorically, «having ne...
John 1:1 . In the beginning was the Word. Εν αρχη ο λογος. John begins the new creation with the words of Moses of the old creation, and continues to speak of Christ in the running language of all...
John bare witness of Him The pre-eminence of Christ I. CHRIST’S SUPERIORITY TO JOHN THE BAPTIST. 1. John refers to and repeats previous testimonies, applying them to Him whom the congregatio...
EXPOSITION THE title of the book is differently given in the manuscripts and ancient versions, and the differences are so considerable that they cannot be referred to the original text. The si...
The closing testimony of the prologue:
2 Corinthians 1:20 ; 2 Corinthians 3:7-10 ; Acts 13:34-39 ; Acts 28:23 ; Acts 7:38 ; Deuteronomy 33:4 ; Deuteronomy 4:44 ; Deuteronomy 5:1 ; Exodus 20:1-17 ; Galatians 3:10-13 ; Galatians...
Seeing Christ in John John 1:1-18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is not difficult for us to find the Lord Jesus in the Book of John. We have always been told that John, by the Holy Ghost, sets forth th...
The law — Working wrath and containing shadows: was given — No philosopher, poet, or orator, ever chose his words so accurately as St. John. The law, saith he, was given by Moses: grace was by Jesu...