Article December 16, 1961 Issue

WORDS OF CURRENT INTEREST

[The words in this issue are related to the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly designated to be read in Christian Science churches on December 24, 1961.]

The true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world (John 1:9)

In the Greek the phrase translated "that cometh [literally 'coming'] into the world" may refer to "every man" (as indicated in the King James Version) or to the "coming" of the Light. Weymouth translates, "There was the true Light, which lightens every man, coming into the world," adding in a footnote that "the participle is ambiguous in gender and case."

Grace for grace (John 1:16)

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