All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Ver. 3. All things were made by him] So he was not idle with the Father (though he were his darling, sporting always before him, Pro 8:30), but by him, as by a principal efficient and co-agent with the Father and the Holy Ghost, all things were made; as some shadow and obscure representation of his wisdom, power, goodness, &c., seen in the creature, as the sun is seen in water, or as letters refracted in a pair of spectacles are beheld by a dim eye. We can see but God's back parts, and live; we need see no more, that we may live, Exodus 33:23 .
And without him was nothing made] This is added for the more certainty: it being usual with the Hebrews, thus by negation to confirm what they have before affirmed, where they would assure that the thing is so indeed; as Psalms 92:15; John 7:18 .