1 John 1:1
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
Note d'étude
Study Note
The prologue's sensory triad — 'which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled' — is the New Testament's most emphatic anti-docetic affirmation: the Word of life was physically perceptible, tactile, historically grounded. The fourfold accumulation of sense-verbs (heard, seen, beheld, touched) increases in specificity and physical intimacy, building toward the strongest possible claim against those who denied the flesh of Christ (4:2-3). The phrase 'from the beginning' (ap' archēs) echoes John 1:1 but applies to the historical beginning of Jesus' ministry rather than the eternal pre-existence, though both beginnings are probably in view simultaneously. This verse grounded the early church's rule that orthodoxy required both eternal sonship and genuine incarnation — the double test that Chalcedon (451 AD) codified against both Arianism and Docetism.
Autres traductions
That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life
That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life--
That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life
Références croisées
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the …
But thou, Beth–lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come …
Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not …
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, …
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.