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1 John opens by describing "the word of life" as something the witnesses heard, saw, and touched, then proclaimed. The point is that the life was revealed and testified to publicly. See 1 John 1:1–2.
1That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
2(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);