...For the firft, it is the exprefs teftimony Jolmi. 15. of John himfelf ; This is he of whom I [pake, he that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me. In which words, firft, he taketh to himfelf a priority of time, fpeaking of Chrift, he that...

...belongs to ' the only begotten of tho Father.' 15. ' John bare witness of him, and cried saying, This wae he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before mo : for he was before me.' Tho mission, of John the Baptist was not to set up a new dispensation,...

...beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) lull of grace and truth. 1 5 If John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that comcth after me is preferred before me ; for he was before^me. 1 6 And of his fulness have all we received,...

...(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This...cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before ma/ And of his fulness have all -vve received, and grace for grace. a For the lawwas given by...

...~eth into th: world. John Bap lift came for a -uiinefs, and be faithfully delivered histeftimony : " He that cometh after me is preferred before me ; for he was before me— whofe ihoes' latchet I am not worthy to unloofe • He muft increafe, but 1 muft decreafe,"...

...Chrift would verv well agree with the teftimony of John concerning himfelf and Chrift ; John i. 15. " He that cometh after me, is preferred before me ; for he was before me. To this fame purpofe, al, molt, Epiphanius adverfus gnofticos, Chryfoftom, Theophylact,...

...him. 15. It was to him that John referred, when he proclaimed, faying, This was he of whom I fpake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me ; that is, my chief, and him to whom I am fubfervient. 19. And when a folemn deputation was...

...caufc of their being, and being what they arc in their day. Thus we are to underftand what John faith, "He that cometh after me, is preferred before me, for he was before me." John iii. 16. He was before me, not in time, for this would contradict what he had faid...

...Jews. He calls him * the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world.' He says of him, ' This is he of whom I spake, He that Cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before mej' that is, though he was born after me, and enters into \ • his office after me, yet he...

...14. And John i. i ^. John bare witnefs of him, and • cried, faying, This was he of whom I fpake ; He that cometh after me is preferred before me ; for he was before: me : ie in his divine nature. And ver. 29, &c. The next day John fecth Jejus coming unto him,...