The Christian Doctrine of Creation
Lange. John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. I. THE PURIFICATION OF THE HEATHEN DOCTRINE: obviating the eternity of matter. II. THE DEEPENING OF THE JEWISH DOCTRINE of the Shekinah: clearly pronouncing the personal life of love in God as it enters into the world. III. THE GLORIFICATION OF THE SOUND DOCTRINE of scientific investigation: man the final cause of things; the God Man the final cause of man. IV. THE VERDICT OF THE SPIRIT respecting the derivation of the world from a non-spiritual source: materialism. (Lange.) Parallel Verses KJV: All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. WEB: All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.