In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.… And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory (1:1, 14). Why does John use the Word (ho logos) as his key opening term? Of the many suggestions made over the centuries about this, there are three that together seem to me to be least inadequate. First, and most obvious, John is beginning a writing that is made up of
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