very far;356 one suspects that the rich associations of Logos in the Hellenistic world quickly overshadowed it, and many Palestinian Jewish Christians, becoming marginalized from both sides in that debate, did not develop the apologetic technique as well as they could have. John’s choice of the Logos (embracing also Wisdom and Torah) to articulate his Christology was brilliant: no concept better articulated an entity that was both divine yet distinct from the Father. By this term, some
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