Logos Christology

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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Sermon LXIX. [CXIX. Ben.] On the same words, John i. “In the beginning was the word,” etc. 1. That our Lord Jesus Christ in seeking lost man was made Man, our preaching has never withholden, and yo

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Sermon LXVII. [CXVII. Ben.] On the words of the Gospel, John i. 1, “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God,” etc. Against the Arians. 1. The section of the G

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§17. How the Incarnation did not limit the ubiquity of the Word, nor diminish His Purity. (Simile of the Sun.) For He was not, as might be imagined, circumscribed in the body, nor, while present in t

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For ever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in heavenHe sent His Word and healed themThou sendest forth Thy Spirit, they are createdBy the word of the Lord were the heavens made: and all the host of them by

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Homily XI. John i. 14 “And the Word was made Flesh, and dwelt among us.” [1.] I desire to ask one favor of you all, before I touch on the words of the Gospel; do not you refuse my request, for I as

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That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

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That we are not atheists, therefore, seeing that we acknowledge one God, uncreated, eternal, invisible, impassible, incomprehensible, illimitable, who is apprehended by the understanding only and the

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Chapter XVI.Argument.—Again from the Gospel He Proves Christ to Be God. If Christ was only man, how is it that He Himself says, “And every one that believeth in me shall not die for evermore?”in this

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Chapter XIII. Argument.—That the Same Truth is Proved from the Sacred Writings of the New Covenant. And thus also John, describing the nativity of Christ, says: “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt am

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Chapter XIV. Argument.—The Author Prosecutes the Same Argument. And yet the heretic still shrinks from urging that Christ is God, whom he perceives to be proved God by so many words as well as facts.

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Chapter 3.—Of the Son of God, and His Peculiar Designation as the Word. —Since this is the case, I repeat, we beJesus Christ, the Son of God the Only-Begotten of the Father, that is to say, His Only

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God was in the beginning; but the beginning, we have been taught, is the power of the Logos. For the Lord of the universe, who is Himself the necessary ground (ὑπόστασις) of all being, inasmuch as no

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1. You see, my friend, the method which these men employ to deceive themselves, while they abuse the Scriptures by endeavouring to support their own system out of them. For this reason, I have brought

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1. John, the disciple of the Lord, preaches this faith, and seeks, by the proclamation of the Gospel, to remove that error which by Cerinthus had been disseminated among men, and a long time previousl

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1. For the Lord, revealing Himself to His disciples, that He Himself is the Word, who imparts knowledge of the Father, and reproving the Jews, who imagined that they, had [the knowledge of] God, while

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1. As regards His greatness, therefore, it is not possible to know God, for it is impossible that the Father can be measured; but as regards His love (for this it is which leads us to God by His Word)

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Chapter XXI.—In This and the Four Following Chapters It is Shewn, by a Minute Analysis of St. John’s Gospel, that the Father and Son are Constantly Spoken of as Distinct Persons. Consider, therefore,

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