Was manifested (εφανερωθη). First aorist passive indicative of φανεροω, to make known what already exists, whether invisible (B. W…

For the life was manifested. It was made manifest or visible to us. He who was the life was made known to men by the incarnation. He appeared among…

The Exordium (1 John 1:1–4).

1. OBJECT AND PURPOSE OF THE APOSTOLIC PREACHING: The setting forth of the hist…

(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was ma…

Because this is the nub of John’s argument, he takes pains to restate it: The life to which he bears witness, the life that was with the Father, is…

For (or, and) the life was manifested. The conjunction is explanatory, as though he had said, “We testify of the life-gi…

For the life was manifested
That is, the Word of life, who is life itself, the fountain of life, having it as God, i…

That e ential Good, that uncreated Excellence, which had been from the beginning, from eternity, as equal with the Father, and which finally appear…