Footnote

Or, “On the day before.” This rendering of the Gr. word πρῶτος (proʹtos) followed by the genitive case of the next word agrees with the sense and rendering of a like construction in Joh 1:15, 30, namely, “he existed before [proʹtos] me.” According to LS, p. 1535, col. 1, “πρῶτος is sts. [sometimes] used where we should expect πρότερος [proʹte·ros].”