John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. You cannot tell how much is done by the pure shining of His light and the emission of this life, and how much by your own receptivity, bier is it necessary. Christ fructifies and stimulates the original and moral faculties and makes them productive. If I take a plant out of a cellar where it has grown etiolated, and without chlorophyl, and put it where the light will shine upon it, and when it turns green, will you tell me what part of the green is plant and what part sun? I would say that the sun developes this chlorophyl by injecting itself, so to speak, into the leaf. So that the light and the life co-operate with the faith, the love, the receptivity of the individual who receives them. (H. W. Beecher.) Parallel Verses KJV: In him was life; and the life was the light of men. |
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