seasons and years, and the guardian of all that is in the visible world. ‘ When the eye of the soul is turned round, the whole soul must be turned round from the world of becoming into that of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or, in other words, of the good.”
Notice also the appropriateness of the two verbs joined with the neuter and the masculine pronouns. In ver. 5, with 2, the Word, as a principle of light, caténaBev, apprehended. Here, with Him, the Word, as a person, éyva, recognized.
11. He came (7ASev). The narrative now passes from the general to the special action of the Word as the Light. The verb came, in the aorist tense, denotes a definite act—the In- carnation. In ver. 10 the Word is described as in the world invisibly. Now He appears.
Unto His own (eis ta idsa). Lit., hos own things: see on Actsi. 7. The Rev. follows the A. V. Wyc., into his own things. Render his own home, and compare xvi. 32; xix. 27; Acts xxi. 6. The reference is to the land of Israel, which is recognized as God’s own in a peculiar sense. See Jer. ii. 7; Hosea ix. 3; Zech. ii. 12; Deut. vii. 6. Not a repetition of ver. 10. There is a progress in the narrative. He was in the world at large: then he came unto His own home.
His own (oi tSv0v). The masculine gender, as the preceding was neuter. That signified His own home or possessions, this His own people. Rev., they that were His own.
Received (apédaBov). Most commonly in the New Testa- ment of taking one along with another. See on Matt. iv. 5; xvii. 1; Acts xvi. 33. But also of accepting or acknowledging one to be what he professes to be, and of receiving something transmitted, as 1 Cor. xi. 23; Gal. i. 12, ete. Westcott thinks this latter sense is implied here; Christ having been offered by the teachers of Israel through John. Alford adopts the former sense ; “expressing the personal assumption to one’s self as a friend or companion.” De Wette explains to recede into the house. Godet strains a point by explaining as welcomed. De