Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
He was in the world (en tw kosmw hn). Imperfect tense of continuous existence in the universe before the Incarnation as in verses John 1:1-2.
Was made by him (di autou egeneto). "Through him." Same statement here of "the world" (o kosmov) as that made in verse John 1:3 of panta.
Knew him not (auton ouk egnw). Second aorist active indicative of common verb ginoskw, what Gildersleeve called a negative aorist, refused or failed to recognize him, his world that he had created and that was held together by him (Colossians 1:16). Not only did the world fail to know the Pre-incarnate Logos, but it failed to recognize him when he became Incarnate (John 1:26). Two examples in this sentence of John's fondness for kai as in verses 0:0-1:1, the paratactic rather than the hypotactic construction, like the common Hebrew use of wav.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 1:10:
John 1:3
John 3:15
John 5:38
John 8:20
John 8:55
John 9:5
John 14:17
John 16:5
1 John 2:15
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