DECEMBER, 1898

^[p. 149] DECEMBER, 1898

I do not think that we have got to the bottom of the thought of the Logos. Philosophy had an idea of a logos of the material universe. John, I judge, gives the logos of the moral universe. From Luke 1:2 it appears to me that ‘the Word’ was what Christ was in the apprehension of the apostles, and John speaks from this standpoint. The Word to them was the substance and expression of all that was divinely blessed for men (the intelligent and the intelligible) and thus the soul of that vast system in which the blessed God is displayed. But all this hangs on incarnation, the introduction to John’s gospel gives the real genealogy of ‘the Word’. He was with God and truly God, and being such He became flesh, and is full of grace and truth.