Waggoner on the Gospel of John - Ellet J. Waggoner

This light of life is in every man that comes
into the world. It "lighteth every man coming into
the world." R.V. As he comes into the world, he
receives the light. It is ours from our earliest
infancy. With our first breath we have the life of
Christ. What for?--"The Word is very nigh unto
thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou
mayest do it." (Deut. 30:14) And this Word was in
the beginning with God, and the Word was God.
So although "the wicked are estranged from the
womb; they go astray as soon as they be born,
speaking lies" (Ps. 58:3), there is no excuse for
their so doing. God's eternal power and Divinity
are to be seen in them as well as in the other things
that He has made, "that they may be without
excuse." (Rom. 1:19, 20) The life is with them
from the very beginning, in order that they may
live even as Christ lived.
Do you say that this but increases the
condemnation of all mankind, in that all have
sinned, and "there is none that doeth good, no, not
one?" Very true, but "where sin abounded, grace
did much more abound." Great as the
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