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noxious systems, not only to Judaism but to Christendom
too!
The origin of the doctrine of the Logos is to be traced,
therefore, to the theology of Philon, and the Apostle John
- or the author of the Fourth Gospel, whoever he be -
only dogmatized the theory of the "ideas" which had
sprung up first from the golden brain of Plato. As re-
marked in the first article of this series, the Divine Word
means the Word of God, and not God the Word. The
word is an attribute of a rational being; it belongs to any
speaker, but it is not the rational being, the speaker. The
Divine Word is not eternal, it has an origin, a beginning; it
did not exist before the beginning except potentially. The
word is not the essence. It is a serious error to substantialize
too!
The origin of the doctrine of the Logos is to be traced,
therefore, to the theology of Philon, and the Apostle John
- or the author of the Fourth Gospel, whoever he be -
only dogmatized the theory of the "ideas" which had
sprung up first from the golden brain of Plato. As re-
marked in the first article of this series, the Divine Word
means the Word of God, and not God the Word. The
word is an attribute of a rational being; it belongs to any
speaker, but it is not the rational being, the speaker. The
Divine Word is not eternal, it has an origin, a beginning; it
did not exist before the beginning except potentially. The
word is not the essence. It is a serious error to substantialize