IN the beginning] 1 John 1. 1. From eternitie: in the beginning, not temporall, determinate, or to be measured by time, but indeterminate, eternall, and before all time. Colos. 1. 17. was] Not made when the creatures were, but before any of them were, He was. the Word] The promised Messiah, of whom God before spake to all the Fathers. It is usuall with the Hebrews, to put word for the thing spoken of; Deuteronomy 19:3. 1 King 6. 19. and 12. 24. Psal. 28. 2, &c. and he is the same by whom God revealed his will. Vers. 18. was with God] Coeternall with the Father. the Word was God] Christ is eternall God.