The Word
deity figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 14 anchored passages
Christ · the Word · the Lord · the Son · Jesus · Jesus Christ · Logos · our Saviour · the Logos · the Saviour
spoken of as
1 expressionChrist“the Word”4 mentions
Stromata (Greek) · Protrepticus (Greek)
and both are Christ—both the foundation and the building upon it, through whom are both the beginning and the ends.
in the texts
Protrepticus
The divine Word/Logos, identified with Christ and the Lord, who admonishes, teaches, and saves humanity, becoming incarnate to redeem man.
but you, hearing the divine Word, do you not fear?
Wherefore it seems to me that, since the Word himself has come to us from heaven, we ought no longer to go to human teaching, busying ourselves about Athens and the rest of Greece, and Ionia besides.
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.
Stromata
Christ as the divine Word, mediator between God and the gnostic worshipper, and source of faith and knowledge.
and both are Christ—both the foundation and the building upon it, through whom are both the beginning and the ends.
But the prayer through the mouth he does not make with many words, having learned from the Lord what one ought to ask.
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.
Adversus Hermogenem
The Word (Logos) of the Gospel of John, agent of creation.
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?