John Trapp on John 1:2

Verſe 2. The ſame was in the beginning] In the inſtant of Creation, as Gen. 1.1. therefore alſo before the Creation, therefore from eternity, Epheſ. 1.4. 1 Pet. 1, 20. Prov. 8.22, 23. H[illegible: 1 letter]nc Iohannes auguſtum illud et magnificum Evangelii ſui imtium aſſumpſit. Mercer. in loc. Pro [non-Latin text not transcribed] ſubſtituit [non-Latin text not transcribed]. The Lord poſſeſſed me (ſaith Chriſt, the eſſentiall Wiſedome of God there) in the beginning of his way. Arrius corrupted the Greeke text, reading it thus; The Lord created me in the beginning, &c. and there hence blaſphemouſly inferred, that Chriſt was no more then a creature. But he was ſet up Vncta ſum in reginam et dominatricem oleo laetitiae. Pſal. 45.7. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Laert. in vit. from everlaſting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was, verſe 23. Hence he is called, the Ancient of dayes, Dan. 7.9. And Thales, one of the ſeven Sages of Greece, ſtileth him, The moſt ancient of any thing that hath Being.

With God.] Being alius from his Father, not aliud; a diſtinct perſon, yet co-eſſentiall and co-eternall; for he was with him in the beginning of the creature which God created, as himſelfe ſpeaketh, Marke 13.19.