19. this is the condemnation, &c.--emphatically so, revealing the
condemnation already existing, and sealing up under it those who
will not be delivered from it.
light is come into the world--in the Person of Him to whom Nicodemus
was listening.
loved darkness, &c.--This can only be known by the deliberate
rejection of Christ, but that does fearfully reveal it.
JFB.
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