what fills something up (of earth and all it contains - 1Cor 10:26, of baskets (Mk 8:20).
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(1) Literally full or filled up - contents. There are several nuances of pleroma in the NT uses. Pleroma was a recognized technical term in theology, denoting the totality of the Divine powers and attributes. Pleroma speaks of the total quantity and emphasizes completeness. Pleroma is completion and describes what is fulfilled or is completed without any gap. Pleroma describes a full measure or abundance with emphasis upon completeness. Thus ‘ fulness’ here bears no technical, gnostic sense.įulness ( 4138)( pleroma from pleroo = make full, fill, fill up) means fullness, full measure, abundance, completion or what fills. Picking up on the term, John says that it is from this fulness that we have received grace after grace. ( John 1 Commentary)ĭ A Carson explains John's use of pleroma in this context - John 1:14 described the glory of God manifest in the incarnate Word as full of grace and truth. Here again it seems John the Apostle is attacking an early gnostic view of reality. Jesus is the only mediator between God and man (cf. Utley - The gnostic false teachers used it to describe the angelic aeons between the high god and lesser spiritual beings. They are mentally complete because they know the truth about ultimate reality." (Colossians Commentary). They are morally complete in that they recognize the authority of God’s will. Believers are spiritually complete because they have fellowship with God. At salvation, believers become “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Pet. He is mentally incomplete because he does not know ultimate truth. He is morally incomplete because he lives outside of God’s will. He is spiritually incomplete because He is totally out of fellowship with God. As John MacArthur says "As a result of the Fall, man is in a sad state of incompleteness. Vincent - John's meaning (of His fullness) is that Christians receive from the divine completeness whatever each requires for the perfection of his character and for the accomplishment of his work (compare Jn 15:15 Jn 17:22).Īs discussed more below in the word study on pleroma, Christ is the pleroma of God, and we are filled with His pleroma. Of His fullness - To what does this refer? John has just stated that Jesus is "full of grace and truth," and it certainly is reasonable that these blessings are those to which John refers, especially in view of his repetition of "grace upon grace" a phrase which speaks of abundant, sufficient grace.īarclay adds that fullness or pleroma is "the sum total of all that is in God." Christ is fully God (Col 2:9) and we are fully complete in Him (Col 2:10). Steven Cole favors John 1:16 as explaining John 1:14. Indeed, John the Baptist was just quoted in the preceding passage, but most modern scholars feel that Jn 1:16-18 represents John the Gospel writer's comments.įor - Always stop and interrogate this small but strategic term of explanation. Note: Origen and Luther took these words as John the Baptist's words. Young's Literal: and out of his fulness did we all receive, and grace over-against grace Wuest: for out of His fulness as a source we all received, and grace in exchange for grace. Phillips: Indeed, every one of us has shared in his riches - there is a grace in our lives because of his grace. NLT: We have all benefited from the rich blessings he brought to us-one gracious blessing after another. KJV: And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. Greek: hoti ek tou pleromatos autou hemeis pantes elabomen, (1PAAI) kai charin anti charitos Īmplified: For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and even favor upon favor and gift upon gift.ĮSV: And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. John 1:16 For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. JESUS' RISE FROM OBSCURITY FOLLOWED BY OPPOSITION Charts from Jensen's Survey of the NT - used by permission
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