The Gospel According to St. John Volume 1; The Greek Text with Introduction and Notes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...i. 21, etc.). 2. The fundamental idea of (cdoyxos in St. John is that of the sum of created being which belongs to the sphere of human life as an ordered whole, considered apart from God (xvii. 5, 24). The whole is relative to man as well as to God. So far as it includes the material creation, this is regarded as the appointed medium and scene of man's work (comp. Wisd. ix. 2 f., x. 1). Spiritual existences (angels, etc.) are not included in this conception of the world; they are "of the things above" as contrasted with "the things below " (viii. 23). In this widest sense "the world was made through (Sia)" the Word (i. 10). Comp. Rev. xiii. 8, xvii. 8. 3. More specially the world is that system which answers to the circumstances of man's present life. At birth he "comes into the world " (vi, 14, xvi. 21), and "is in the world" till death (xiii. 1, xvii. 11), comp. xvii. 15. The Lord during His earthly Life, or when He submits to its conditions, is "in the world" (ix. 5, xvii. 11, 13) in a more definite manner than that in which He is "in the world" from creation (i. 10), "coming into the world " (i. 9, xi, 27, xii, 46, xvi, 28, xviii. 37), and being "sent into the world" by the Father (x. M, xvii. 18; 1 John iv. 9), and again "leaving the world" (xvi. 28). Comp. Rev xi. 15. 4. So far "the world" represents that which is transitory and seen as opposed to the eternal (1 John ii. 15 E, iii. 17). And these particular ideas of the transitoriness, the externality, the corruption of "the world" are emphasised in the phrase "this world " (d Koa-fw: ovros, viii. 23, xi, 9, xii. 25, 31, xiii, 1, xviii. 36, xvi. 11; 1 John iv. 17. Comp. xiv...