John Trapp on John 1:3

Verſe 3. All things were made by him.] So, he was not idle with the Father (though he were his darling, ſporting alwayes before him, Prov. 8.30.) but by him, as by a principall efficient and co-agent with the Father, and the holy Ghoſt, all things were made; as ſome ſhadow and obſcure repreſentation of his Wiſedome, Power, Goodneſſe, &c. ſeen in the Creature, as the ſinn is ſeen in water, or as letters refracted in a paire of ſpectacles are beheld by a dimme eye. We can ſee but Gods back-parts, and live; we need ſee no more, Exod. 33.23. that we may live.

And without him was nothing made.] This is added for the more certainty: it being uſuall with the Hebrewes, thus by negation to confirm what they have before affirmed, where they would aſſure, that the thing is ſo indeed; as Pſal. 92.15. Ioh. 7.18.