...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...

...of grace and truth. 15 If 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...

...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...

...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...

...of " God which taketh away the sin of the world." He 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 " we all received." He added on another occasion, "The Father loveth...

...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...

...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,...

...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...