John 1:7

“The same came for a witness, etc.] The end of his being sent, and the design of his coming were, to bear witness of the light: by which is meant, not the light of nature, or reason; nor the light of the Gospel: but Christ himself, the author of light, natural, spiritual, and eternal. This was one of the names of the Messiah with the Jews; of whom they say f20, wmç aryhn, “light is his name”; as it is said in (<270222>Daniel 2:22) and the light dwelleth with him; on which they have f21 elsewhere this gloss, this is the King Messiah; and so they interpret (<194303>Psalm 43:3) of him f22. Philo the Jew often speaks of the Logos, or word, as light, and calls him the intelligible light; the…”

“through him--John.”

“For a witness - To give testimony. He came to prepare the minds of the people to receive him Matthew 3:0; Luke 3:0; to lead them by repentance to God; and to point out the Messiah to Israel when he came, John 1:31. Of the Light - That is, of the Messiah. Compare Isaiah 60:1. That all men ... - It was the object of John’s testimony that all people might believe. He designed to prepare them for it; to announce that the Messiah was about to come, to direct the minds of men to him, and thus to prepare them to believe on him when he came. Thus, he baptized them, saying “That they should believe on him who should come after him” Acts 19:4, and thus he produced a very general expectation that the…”

“The same came for (that is, in order to give) a testimony - The evangelist, with the most strong and tender affection, interweaves his own testimony with that of John, by noble digressions, wherein he explains the office of the Baptist; partly premises and partly subjoins a farther explication to his short sentences. What St. Matthew, Mark, and Luke term the Gospel, in respect of the promise going before, St. John usually terms the testimony, intimating the certain knowledge of the relator; to testify of the light - Of Christ. John 1:9”

“a witness: Joh 1:19, Joh 1:26, Joh 1:27, Joh 1:32-34, Joh 1:36, Joh 3:26-36, Joh 5:33-35; Act 19:4 that: Joh 1:9, Joh 3:26; Eph 3:9; Ti1 2:4; Tit 2:11; Pe2 3:9 John 1:8”