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NASB | John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 1:1 In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. [Gen 1:1; Is 9:6] |
Bible Question: What special meaning did "logos" (the Word) have for both Greeks and Jews? |
Bible Answer: Hank, The Greek philosophers and Jews, (Christians as well) all used the term for their source of Truth. I like Vincents article (New Testament Word Studies) on "logos", he brings to light the term and it's varied uses. John 1:1 After the Babylonish captivity the Jewish doctors combined into one view the theophanies, prophetic revelations and manifestations of Jehovah generally, and united them in one single conception, that of a permanent agent of Jehovah in the sensible world, whom they designated by the name [Memra] ("word," logos (NT:3056)) of Jehovah......... .....But John's doctrine is not Philo's, and does not depend upon it. The differences between the two are pronounced. Though both use the term Logos, they use it with utterly different meanings. In John it signifies "word," as in Holy Scripture generally; in Philo, "reason;" and that so distinctly that when Philo wishes to give it the meaning of word, he adds to it by way of explanation, the term reema (NT:4487), "word." (from Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1997 by Biblesoft) |