John:1:16

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rwp @John:1:16 @{For } (\hoti \). Correct text (Aleph B C D L ) and not \kai \ (and ) of the Textus Receptus . Explanatory reason for verse 14 |. {Of his fulness } (\ek tou pl ˆr “matos \). The only instance of \pl ˆr “ma \ in John 's writings , though five times of Christ in Paul 's Epistles (Colossians:1:19 ; strkjv @2:9 ; strkjv @Ephesians:1:23 ; strkjv @3:19 ; strkjv @4:13 |). See strkjv @Colossians:1:19 | for discussion of these terms of the Gnostics that Paul employs for all the attributes of God summed up in Christ (Colossians:2:9 |) and so used here by John of the Incarnate Logos . {We all } (\h ˆmeis pantes \). John is facing the same Gnostic depreciation of Christ of which Paul writes in Colossians . Songs:here John appeals to all his own contemporaries as participants with him in the fulness of the Logos . {Received } (\elabomen \). Second aorist active indicative of \lamban “\, a wider experience than beholding (\etheasametha \, verse 14 |) and one that all believers may have . {Grace for grace } (\charin anti charitos \). The point is in \anti \, a preposition disappearing in the _Koin ‚ _ and here only in John . It is in the locative case of \anta \ (end ), "at the end ," and was used of exchange in sale . See strkjv @Luke:11:11 |, \anti ichthuos ophin \, "a serpent for a fish ," strkjv @Hebrews:12:2 | where "joy " and "cross " are balanced against each other . Here the picture is "grace " taking the place of "grace " like the manna fresh each morning , new grace for the new day and the new service .

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