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Joh 1:16-18. SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
16. of his fulness--of "grace and truth," resuming the thread of
Joh 1:14.
grace for grace--that is, grace upon grace (so all the best
interpreters), in successive communications and larger measures, as each
was able to take it in. Observe, the word "truth" is here dropped.
"Grace" being the chosen New Testament word for the whole fulness of the
new covenant, all that dwells in Christ for men.
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