Matthew Poole and continuators on John 1:5

5 And the light shineth in darkness : and the darkness comprehended it not .

He had said before, That Life was in Christ, in him as in the Fountain; and the Life in him was the Light of men, giving Light to men. Now this Light which was in him, had its emanations (as Light in the Sun; and

the darkness, that is, men of dark minds, the abstract being put for the concrete,) comprehended (that is received) it not.

This was true concerning the Iews in former times, upon whom Christ the true Light had shined in many Types and Prophecies; it was also true concerning the Iews of that present Age, to whom through the favour of him who had undertaken the Redemption of man, the means of Gra[illegible: 1 letter]e were continued; through the blindness of their minds and hardness of their hearts, t[illegible: 1 letter]ey wilfully rejected those means of illumination which God granted to them.

Marginal references: Chap. 3.19.