C. H. Dodd accordingly suggested that the whole passage from verse 4 is at once “an account of the relations of the Logos (the Word) with the world, and an account of the ministry of Jesus Christ, which in every essential particular reproduces those relations.”4 This is especially clear with regard to verses 4–13, with which we were concerned; the description of the activity of the Word in that passage holds good both of the preincarnate and the incarnate Word, even if the language is more especially