he substitutes this concept in the prologue, and who is for him the Revealer (and strictly only the Revealer according to Bultmann’s view). Everything else pales beside the fact that in him God is in the broadest sense speech, address, the Word that comes to us. In him as the Word is the life that is the light of men, as we read in vv. 4f. It seems to me to be making it all impermissibly pragmatic when Schlatter has it that the Evangelist is referring to the words from the lips of Jesus.18 For the