(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
which was with the Father: "With" carries the idea of "face to face" in the Greek and implies fellowship. Jesus was not only the eternal Logos, the total revelation of God; but He was a person in the presence of God, one who had enjoyed fellowship with the Father from eternity. (Compare John 1:1-2.)