‘was in the form of God’ came in order … to take ‘the form of a slave.’ ”11 The preexistence of the Son in all eternity with God the Father was basic to Origen’s understanding of Jesus Christ. The Logos theologians had also stressed the eternal existence of the Logos with God. Origen clearly stood in their tradition, but he also differed from them, as the preceding discussions should make apparent. He has two major critiques of the Logos theology as it had been expressed by his predecessors. First,
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