Subject: "word" or "Word" |
Bible Note: I found this on 1 pet. 1:23 from Marvin Vincent's Word Studies "Word of God The gospel of Christ. Compare 1Pe_1:25, and Peter's words, Act_10:36. Also, Eph_1:13; Col_1:5; Jam_1:18. Not the personal Word, as the term is employed by John. Nevertheless, the connection and relation of the personal with the revealed word is distinctly recognized. “In the New Testament we trace a gradual ascent from (a) the concrete message as conveyed to man by personal agency through (b) the Word, the revelation of God to man which the message embodies, forming, as it were, its life and soul, to (c) The Word, who, being God, not only reveals but imparts himself to us, and is formed in us thereby” (Scott, on James1:18, “Speaker's Commentary”). |