John 1:2 (WEB)
The same was in the beginning with God.
Catechism · 1
“"In the beginning was the Word. . . and the Word was God. . . all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 1:1-3.
Fathers and councils · 40
Gregory of Nyssa
“But inasmuch as the Lord Who is the Truth is God, and is in the Father and is one relatively to the Father, there is no room in the true doctrine for these distinctions of phrases.” — editor's note: καὶ ἓν πρὸς τὸν πατέρα ὄντος. It may be questioned whether the text is sound: the phrase seems unusual; perhaps ἓν has been inserted in error from the…
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“And he expresses himself thus: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; the same was in the beginning with God.”” — editor's note: John i. 1, 2.
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Tertullian
“All things were made by Him, and without Him nothing was made.”” — editor's note: John i. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“Now the Word of life became flesh, and was heard, and was seen, and was handled, because He was flesh who, before He came in the flesh, was the “Word in the beginning with God” the Father, and not the Father with the Word.” — editor's note: John i. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“He was in the beginning with God: all things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made.”” — editor's note: John i. 1–3.
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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Hippolytus of Rome
“All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made.”” — editor's note: John i. 1–3. Hippolytus evidently puts the full stop at the οὐδὲ εν, attaching the ο γέγονεν to the following. So also Irenæus, Clemens Alex., Origen,…
Read the whole comment“And what was formed in Him is life.”” — editor's note: John i. 1–4.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“But in the case of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lordship is not so: but He is first Maker, then Lord: first He made all things by the Father’s will, then, He is Lord of the things which were made by Him.” — editor's note: Origen (De Principiis, I. ii. 10) had argued that “even God cannot be called omnipotent, unless there exist those over whom He may exercise His power,” and…
Read the whole comment“Again, I say, on hearing of a Son, understand it not merely in an improper sense, but as a Son in truth, a Son by nature, without beginning; not as having come out of bondage into a higher state of adoption, but a Son eternally begotten by an inscrutable and incomprehensible generation.” — editor's note: Athanasius (de Synodis, § 15) quotes a passage from the Thalia of Arius, in which he says: “We praise Him as without beginning, because of Him who has a…
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Augustine of Hippo
“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehendeth it not.”” — editor's note: John i. 1–5.
Read the whole comment“But what mystery there was in, “The Word was made flesh,” I could not even imagine.” — editor's note: We have already seen, in note 1, sec. 13, above, how this text (1) runs counter to Platonic beliefs as to the Logos. The following passage from Augustin’s De…
Read the whole comment“By the Word?” — editor's note: John i. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“And if the Son be not of the same substance as the Father, then is He a made substance: if a made substance, then not “all things were made by Him:” but, “all things were made by Him;” therefore, He is of one and the same substance with the Father.” — editor's note: John i. 2.
Read the whole comment“But herein is declared, not only that He is God, but also that He is of the same substance with the Father; because, after saying, “And the Word was God,” it is said also, “The same was in the beginning with God: all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made.”” — editor's note: John i. 1, 14, 2, 3
Read the whole comment“Therefore, since without any commencement of time, the Word was in the beginning, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, it was in the Word itself without any time, at what time the Word was to be made flesh and dwell among us.” — editor's note: John i. 1, 2, 14
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“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”” — editor's note: John i. 1–5.
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Origen
“All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made.”” — editor's note: John i. 1–3.
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“…and the Word was with God, and the Word was God: the same was in the beginning with God: all things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made;” and as in the Psalm also it is written, “In wisdom hast Thou made them all;”—seeing, then, Christ is, as it were, the Word and Wisdom, and so also the…” — editor's note: John i. 1, 2.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made” and so on.” — editor's note: John i. 1–3
Read the whole comment“All things were made by Him.”” — editor's note: John i. 1, 2, 3. Here this document abruptly terminates.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…say that God is One, neither dividing His Son from Him, as do the heathen, nor denying, with the Jews, that He was begotten of the Father before all worlds, and afterwards born of the Virgin; nor yet, like Sabellius, confounding the Father with the Word, and so maintaining that Father and Son are one and the same…” — editor's note: The original is ante tempora—“before the ages”—“before time was.” Cf. 1 Cor. viii. 6; Phil. ii. 6–8; Col. i. 15 (πρωτότοκος πάσης κτίσεως—“first-born of all…
Read the whole comment“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“The same was in the beginning with God.”” — editor's note: S. John i. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“It is now sufficiently made plain that the Father is not God in solitude, without the Son, and that the Son cannot be thought of as God alone, without the Father, for it is in respect of His flesh that we read that the Son of God was “made,” not in respect of His generation from God the Father.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7; Gal. iv. 4; S. John i. 1, 2, cpd. with 14.
Read the whole comment“…since they believe not in His eternity, though of the Word of God it is written: “That which was in the beginning;” and again: “In the beginning was the Word.”” — editor's note: S. John i. 1, 2.
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Leo the Great
“All things were made through Him, and without Him was made nothing:” and poor because “the Word became flesh and dwelt in us.”” — editor's note: S. John i. 1–3, 14.
Read the whole comment“…the Word of God, Himself God, the Son of God who “in the beginning was with God,” through whom “all things were made” and “without” whom “was nothing made,” with the purpose of delivering man from eternal death, became man: so bending Himself to take on Him our humility without decrease in His own majesty, that…” — editor's note: S. John i. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“All things were made through Him, and without Him was nothing made.”” — editor's note: S. John i. 1–3, 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“All things were made through Him.” — editor's note: St. John i. 1–3.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“So I will not be frightened by the argument that all things are said to have been made by the Son; as if the Holy Spirit also were one of these things.” — editor's note: John i. 2.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”” — editor's note: John i. 1–5.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“For Thou didst come to Thine own and Thine own received Thee not; and by this they were made known that they were not Thine.” — editor's note: John i. 2.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
Whereas he had said, the Word was God, the fearfulness, and strangeness of the speech disturbed me; the prophets having declared that God was One. But, to quiet my apprehensions, the fisherman reveals the scheme of…
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Again, to stop any diabolical suspicion, that the Word, because He was God, might have rebelled against His Father, as certain Gentiles fable, or, being separate, have become the antagonist of the Father Himself, he…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Or, lest hearing that In the beginning was the Word, you should regard It as eternal, but yet understand the Father’s Life to have some degree of priority, he has introduced the words, The Same was in the beginning…
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Or thus, the Evangelist having begun with those propositions, reunites them into one, saying, The Same was in the beginning with God. For in the first of the three we learnt in what the Word was, that it was in the…
Read the whole comment - Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John
Wherefore does he use the substantive verb, was? That you might understand that the Word, Which is coeternal with God the Father, was before all time.
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Cross-references · 22
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.20.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.20.
Cited together in De Principiis II.9.
Cited together in Confessions VII.19.
Cited together in De Principiis II.9.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.20.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.20.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 21.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 21.
Cited together in Catechism §291 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §291.
Cited together in De Principiis II.9.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.
Cited together in Origen on John 1:2 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in De Principiis II.9 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.20.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 21.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.20 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.8.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.20.