“In him was life, and the life was the light of men.”
— WEB
John 1:4
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“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.”
— KJV
“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.”
— ASV
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Commentary
In Him was life--essentially and originally, as the previous verses show to be the meaning. Thus He is the Living Word, or, as He is called in Jo1 1:1-2, "the Word of Life." the life . . . the light of men--All that in men which is true light--knowledge, integrity, intelligent, willing subjection to God, love to Him and to their fellow creatures, wisdom, purity, holy joy, rational happiness--all this "light of men" has its fountain in the essential original "life" of "the Word" (Jo1 1:5-7; Psa 36:9).
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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