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Tozer ~ "The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God himself"

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3 beginnings:Genesis 1 ~1 John 1 ~John 1 ~

beginning of Creationbeginning of the incarnationbeginning of eternity

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Colwell's Rule (1933) ~ "A definite predicate nominative has the article when it follows the verb; it does not have the article when it precedes the verb ... A predicate nominative which precedes the verb cannot be translated as an indefinite … noun solely because of the absence of the article; if the context suggests that the predicate is definite, it should be translated as a definite noun despite the absence of the article."

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The Word was God

Subject verb predicateDefinite article: the WordIndefinite article: a Word"If the definite article is absent, then an indefinite article is understood"… except …

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Theos ēn ho logos God was the Word

Predicate verb subject

NWT ~ " … and the word was a god."

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Is Jesus Jehovah's offspring?• Son of God ~ 43x

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• Son of Man ~ 85x

= idiom referring to His humanity

= idiom referring to His deity

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Life ~ zōē – not, bios or psuchē

Comprehend ~ katalambanō – or, apprehend

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ESV ~ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

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1st own is neuter (creation), 2nd own is masculine (humanity)

"He came to His own creation, and His own people received Him not"

He came to His own, and His own received Him not

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Right ~ exousia – literally authority; KJV, power

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Not of blood ~ God has no grandchildrenWill of the flesh ~ Salvation can't be by legislation

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Dwelt ~ skēnoō - literally tented, verb form of skēnos

Only begotten ~ monogenēs - only one of its kind, unique

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