The same was in the beginning with God.
2. He was in the beginning. In order to impress more deeply on our minds what had been already said, the Evangelist condenses the two preceding clauses into a brief summary, that the Speech always was, and that he was with God; so that it may be understood that the beginning was before all time.
These opening verses declare plainly that Jesus Christ is God, one with the Father. Word means the Son who reveals the Father; it is not a philosophical abstraction but the announcement that life, light, and divinity dwell in Christ, worthy of the deepest wonder and devotion.
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Commenting on John 1:1-5
John repeats what he said before to emphasize three truths of the utmost importance: Christ's eternity, His distinct person from the Father, and His proper deity. The phrase 'in the beginning' belongs to every sentence, proving not only His eternal existence but His eternal existence with the Father and His eternal Godhead.
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