John 1:10 (WEB)
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.
Fathers and councils · 40
Irenaeus of Lyons
“He came unto His own [things], and His own [people] received Him not.”” — editor's note: John i. 10, 11.
Read the whole comment“However, as many as did receive Him, to these gave He power to become the sons of God, to those that believe in His name.”” — editor's note: John i. 10, etc.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For if ‘He was in the world, and the world was made by Him,’ of necessity He is the Word of God, concerning whom also the Evangelist witnesses that all things were made by Him.” — editor's note: Ib. i. 10.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And beneath He says, “The world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not; He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.”” — editor's note: John i. 10, 11.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For He was in the world, and the world was made by Him; and He came unto His own, as the Gospel teaches us.” — editor's note: John i. 10, 11.
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Augustine of Hippo
“He would not be long with us, yet left us not; for He departed thither, whence He never departed, because “the world was made by Him.”” — editor's note: John i. 10.
Read the whole comment“And that “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.”” — editor's note: Ibid. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“Since it was not His absence who is everywhere present, but our turning away that made us lose Him; “He was in this world,” it is said, “and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.”” — editor's note: John i. 10.
Read the whole comment“Against the rulers of this world, of this darkness, the devil, that is, and his angels; not the rulers of that world, whereof is said, “the world was made by Him,” but that world whereof is said, “the world knew Him not.”” — editor's note: John i. 10.
Read the whole comment“The world, when put in a bad sense, is, lovers of the world: the world, when the word is used in praise, is heaven and earth, and the works of God that are in them; whence it is said, “And the world was made by Him.”” — editor's note: John i. 10.
Read the whole comment“What, then, is that which the same evangelist says concerning Him, “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not;” and then he adds, “He came unto His own?”” — editor's note: John i. 10, 11
Read the whole comment“…our changeableness: and “taking upon Him the form of a servant” He came to us into this world,” who “was in this world,” because “the world was made by Him;” that He might be an example upwards to those who see God, an example downwards to those who admire man, an example to the sound to persevere, an example to the…” — editor's note: John i. 10
Read the whole comment“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.”” — editor's note: John i. 1–14
Read the whole comment“Not to that world of which it is said, “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.”” — editor's note: John i. 10.
Read the whole comment““Since the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.”” — editor's note: John i. 10.
Read the whole comment“…but according to His Divinity, wherein He was equal to the Father, was He already in this world, and “the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.”” — editor's note: John i. 10.
Read the whole comment“On the words of the Gospel, John i. 10, “The world was made through him,” etc.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Nevertheless, both “all things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made,” and also “the world was made by Him.”” — editor's note: John i. 3, 10.
Read the whole comment“Listen to the evangelist: “He was in this world, and the world was made by Him.”” — editor's note: Chap. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“Far be it from us, then, so to understand the devil as prince of the world, as if he wielded the government of the whole world, that is, of heaven and earth, and all that is in them; of which sort of world it was said, when we were lecturing on Christ the Word, “And the world was made by Him.”” — editor's note: Chap. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“…made by Him;” but the devil is prince of that world, whereof in the same passage He immediately afterwards subjoins the words, “And the world knew Him not;” that is, unbelieving men, wherewith the world through its utmost extent is filled: among whom the believing world groaneth, which He, who made the world, chose…” — editor's note: Chap. i. 10.
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Ambrose of Milan
“It is Truth, Righteousness, the Power of God: not dumb, for it is the Word; not insensible, for it is Wisdom; not vain and foolish, for it is Power; not soulless, for it is the Life; not dead, for it is the Resurrection.” — editor's note: Christ the Word: S. John i. 1–18. Wisdom: 1 Cor. i. 24, 30. Life and Resurrection: S. John xi. 25.
Read the whole comment“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become sons of God, to them which believe in His Name.”” — editor's note: S. John i. 10 ff.
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John Chrysostom
“For if according to John, “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him” ( John i. 10 ): how is He “brought in,” otherwise than in the flesh?” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“How was he “in the world, and the world was made by him”? ( Ver.” — the author cites it
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Read the whole comment“He (St. John) had said, speaking of the old times, that “the world knew him not” ( ver. 10 ); afterwards he comes down in his narrative to the times of the proclamation (of the Gospel), and says, “He came to His own, and His own received Him…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…yea often: writing that “all things were made by Him;” and, “without Him was not one thing made;” and, He was in the world, and the world was made by Him.”” — editor's note: John i. 3, 10.
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Tertullian
“…prophecy—so completely failed, after the transfer of the whole Spirit to the Lord, that he presently sent to inquire whether He whom he had himself preached, whom he had pointed out when coming to him, were “HE.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 11, 12; John i. 6–36.
Read the whole comment“…course of the end up to the beginning; so that every economy, ending in Him through whom it began,—through the Word of God, that is, who was made flesh,—may have an end correspondent to its beginning.” — editor's note: See John i. 1–14.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the Only-begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.” — editor's note: St. John i. 1–14.
Read the whole comment“…with God, and the Word was God, and All things were made through Him, and He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world knew Him not.” — editor's note: Ib. i. 10.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“He was in this world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.”” — editor's note: John i. 9, 10.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The Light which lighteneth every man that cometh into the world, came here in the flesh; because while He was here in His Divinity alone, the foolish, blind, and un-righteous could not discern Him; those of whom it…
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For as, when a person leaves off speaking, his voice ceases to be, and vanishes; so if the Heavenly Father should cease to speak His Word, the effect of that Word, i. e. the universe which is created in the Word,…
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You must not suppose, however, that He was in the world in the same sense in which the earth, cattle, men, are in the world; but in the sense in which an artificer controls his own work; whence the text, And the…
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And again, because He was in the world, but not coeval with the world, for this cause he introduced the words, and the world was made by Him: thus taking you back again to the eternal existence of the Only-Begotten.…
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Here he overthrows at once the insane notion of the Manichæano, who says that the world is the work of a malignant creature, and the opinion of the Arian, that the Son of God is a creature.
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But what meaneth this, The world was made by Him? The earth, sky, and sea, and all that are therein, are called the world. But in another sense, the lovers of the world are called the world, of whom he says, And the…
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But they who were the friends of God, knew Him even before His presence in the body; whence Christ saith below, Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day. When the Gentiles then interrupt us with the question, Why…
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Cross-references · 31
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.8.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 58.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 1:10 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 79.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 79.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.8.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.8.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.