The Word

And the union out of many, having received divine harmony out of the many-voiced and scattered, becomes one symphony, following one leader of the chorus and teacher, the Word, resting upon the very truth, saying "Abba, Father.

For not in so short a time would the Lord have accomplished so great a work without divine care — despised in appearance, worshipped in deed, the purifier and saviour and gentle one, the divine Word, the most manifest, truly God, made equal to the Master of all, because he was his Son, and the Word was in God;

For the image of God is his Word — and the genuine Son of the Mind is the divine Word, the archetypal light of light — and the image of the Word is the true man, the mind in man, who is therefore said to have been made "after the image and likeness of God," likened in his heart's understanding to the divine Word, and in this respect rational.

We are commanded to reverence and honour the Word, being persuaded that he is Saviour and Ruler, and through him the Father—not on chosen days, as some others do, but doing this continually through the whole of life and in every way.

He is a judge, if reason should call him to it, having become unbending, granting nothing whatever to the passions, walking unswervingly in the path where the just by nature proceeds—being well persuaded that all things are most nobly administered, and that the advance ever goes on toward the better for souls that have chosen virtue, until they come to the Good itself, having become, as it were, n …

and both are Christ—both the foundation and the building upon it, through whom are both the beginning and the ends.

Since therefore here too there is made manifest both the maker, that is, God, and the things made, that is, all things, and the one through whom, that is, the Word — would not order have demanded that it should also profess from what all things were made by God through the Word, if they had been made out of something?