word of God. The exposition of these words depends on the subject spoken about in verse 12. This is the word of God. Sometimes in the Scripture this denotes the essential Word of God and sometimes the word spoken by him. Among the old commentators, Ambrose, with many others, contends that it is the essential and eternal Word of God that is spoken about here. Chrysostom, however, inclines to the view that it means the written word. The name used here, the word of God, is sometimes ascribed to the