...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...

...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,...

...said, " Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world : This is he of whom I spake : He that cometh after me is preferred before me ; for he was before me,"' John i35j 29. And well might he say so, if our Lord himself says, « Before Abraham was...

...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...

...full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying ; This was he of whom I spake ; He that cometh after me is preferred before me^ for he was before me. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses...

...that' " though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor." John i. lo, " John bare witness of him He that cometh after me is preferred before me. For he was before me." And ver. 30, " This is he, of whom I said : Afier me cometh a man, which is preferred before...

...him. We. 0 JOHN, i. 15, 27 : John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me, is preferred before me ; for he was before me. He it is who coming after me, is preferred before me, whose shoes' latchet I am not worthy...

...hate the Jews. testimony of his precursor, John the Baptist, who said to the Jews in the desert, " he that cometh after me, is preferred before me, for he was before me ; prepare ye the way of the Lord ;") oblige us to believe that he is God, without beginning,...

...the glory of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. This is he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me ; and of his fulness have we all received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by...

...of grace and truth. 15. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying ; This was he of whom I spake ; He that cometh after me, is preferred before me ; for he was before me. 16. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17. For the law was given...