Matthew Poole and continuators on John 1:10

10 He was in the world , and the world was made by him ; and the world knew him not .

He was in the place called the World, and amongst the men of the World; for so the term World is often [illegible: 1 letter]aken, chap. 16.28. 2 Pet. 3.6. Christ before he came in the Flesh, was in it; filling both the Heavens and the Earth, and sustaining it by the Word of his Power, and manifesting his Will to it, more immediately to Moses and to the Prophets; and more mediately by Moses and by the Prophets.

And the Heavens and the Earth, all things visible and invisible (as was said before) were made by him. And

the men of the World took no notice of him, did not acknowledg him, believe in him, nor were subject to him; so the word know often signifies (according to the Hebrew idiom) Iohn 10.14, 15, 27. Not a bare comprehension of an Object in the Understanding, but sui[illegible: 1 letter]able affections: So Matth. 7.23. 1 Iohn 3.1. This is not to be understood of all individual persons in the World; for Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, and David, and many particular persons, did in this sense know him; but the generality of the World did not. The Heathens did not (who are sometimes called the World, distinctively from the Iews, 1 Iohn 2.2. 1 Cor. 1.21.) and most of the Iews did not, tho' some did.

Marginal references: Heb. 1.[illegible: 1 letter]. and 11.3.