John Chapter 1, Verse 2
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2: ουτος ην εν αρχη προς τον θεον
2: The same was in the beginning with God.
2: The same was in the beginning with God.
This verse reiterates, after a fashion which we shall find John to favour, what has been said already in Jn 1:1, laying stress, however, upon the fact that the relationship with Deity implied in pros ton theon was eternal; it, too, was "in the beginning." That is to say, v. 2 is a summary statement of the three propositions laid down in v. i, all of which were true en arche.
For the emphatic use of outos cf. Jn 1:15, Jn 6:46, Jn 7:18, Jn 15:5.
The same. The Word, or the Logos,
Was in the beginning with God. This seems to be a repetition of what was said in the first verse; but it is stated over again to guard the doctrine, and to prevent the possibility of a mistake. John had said that he existed before the creation, and that he was with God; but he had not said in the first verse that the union with God existed in the beginning. He now expresses that idea, and assures us that that union was not one which was commenced in time, and which might be, therefore, a mere union of feeling, or a compact, like that between any other beings, but was one which existed in eternity, and which was therefore a union of nature or essence.
