第719页 CHAPTER XXVII: The Apostles: A.D. 30-95 -> III. JOHN

约翰福音：世界的本质是 —— "Word"
嗯，用中文说那就是 —— “道”
Plato had set a theme by picturing the Ideas of God as the
patterns on which all things were formed; the Stoics had combined
these Ideas into the Logos Spermatikos or fertilizing wisdom of God;
the Neo-Pythagoreans had made the Ideas a divine person; and Philo had
turned them into the Logos or Reason of God, a second divine
principle, through which God created, and communicated with, the
world. If we reread the famous exordium of the Fourth Gospel with
all this in mind, and retain the Logos of the Greek original in
place of the translation Word, we perceive at once that John has
joined the philosophers:
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In the beginning was the Logos; the Logos was with God, and the
Logos was God.... All things were made by the Logos; without him
nothing was made that was made. It was by him that all things came
into existence.... So the Logos became flesh and blood, and dwelt
amongst us.
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