...Let the Evangelist answer for himself, — The word was God, and was made flesh and dwelt among us. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away...

...God, the Bridegroom of the Church, and " the Lamb of " God which taketh away the sin of the world." He cried, saying, " This was he of whom I spake, He "...cometh after me is preferred before me ; " for he was before me : and of his fulness have " we all received." He added on another occasion, "The Father loveth...

...either of the Old or of the New Testament. Of this kind the following are examples. Ch. i. 15. ' This is he of whom I spake, he that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me,' presupposes a reader, who had already learnt from the other Evangelists, that John the...

...his people, no more than his coming after John did his being before him in Spirit ; for John said, He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me : mark, he was before John, (1 John i. 13.) though not in the flesh, or body in which he...

...God, the Bridegroom of the Church, and " the Lamb of " God which taketh away the sin of the world." He cried, saying, " This was he of whom I spake, He "...cometh after me is preferred before me ; " for he was before me : and of his fulness have " we all received." He added on another occasion, "The Father loveth...

...cto nahe ready a people prepared far the Lord. • John bare •witness of him, and cried, «aying, This was he of whom I spake. He that cometh after me is preferred before me : for he was before me, John i. 15. Then laid they unto him, Who art thou ? that те may give an answer to them...

...explicit terms, that Jesus existed before John : " John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake. He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me :"J John i, 15, and again, ver. 30. Job lived in days of very remote antiquity, yet he confessed...

...therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows, Psal. xlv. 7. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying. This was he of whom 1 spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me : for he was before me. And of his fulness...

...find that this Word was he of whom John the Baptist was the forerunner, and to whom he bare witness, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me ; for he was before me. And in the other evangelists you will find that it was Christ whose forerunner the Baptist...

...you fix any certain space of duration to this pre-existence ? A. John the Baptist declares, " This is he of whom I spake, he that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me," (John i. 15.) ; ie he who cometh after me, as to conception, nativity, office, and baptism,...