Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
not that Light—(See on John 5:35). What a testimony to John to have to explain that "he was not that Light!" Yet was he but a foil to set it off, his night-taper dwindling before the Dayspring from on high (John 3:30).
The Evangelist here approaches his grand thesis, so paving his way for the full statement of it in John 1:14, that we may be able to bear the bright light of it, and take in its length and breadth and depth and height.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 1:8:
Matthew 5:14
John 1:1
John 8:12
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