In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him.....
Excerpts from Boring & Craddock's People's New Testament Commentary:
The word "word," in Greek, logos, can be translated as speech, discourse, language, thought, reason, message, account, document, or book. The first hearers of John's gospel, being familiar with scripture (what Christians may call the Old Testament) would have associated the word of God with the creative Wisdom of God.
The act of creation, the transmission of wisdom so that we may live in the world created by God, both are ways of understanding how God has and still interacts with this world.
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