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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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fourth Gospel. Bucher differentiates at great lengUi<br />

between <strong>the</strong> Logos <strong>of</strong> Philo <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fourth<br />

GospeU He sums up his views by stating that in<br />

<strong>the</strong>'Prologue <strong>of</strong> St. John <strong>the</strong> Logos is presented as<br />

Cne fulness <strong>of</strong> Divine Light <strong>and</strong> <strong>Life</strong>. This is, so to<br />

sp^ik, tiie <strong>the</strong>me, while <strong>the</strong> Gospel history is<br />

intended to present <strong>the</strong> LogM as <strong>the</strong> giver <strong>of</strong> this<br />

Divine Light <strong>and</strong> <strong>Life</strong>. While <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r Evangelists<br />

ascend from <strong>the</strong> manifestation to <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Son <strong>of</strong> God, St. John descends from <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Logos, as expressed in <strong>the</strong> Prologue, to its<br />

concrete reidisation in His history. <strong>The</strong> latest<br />

tractate (at <strong>the</strong> present writing, 1882) on <strong>the</strong><br />

Gk>spel <strong>of</strong> St. John, by Dr. Muller, Die Johann.<br />

Frage, gives a good summary <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> argument on<br />

both sides, <strong>and</strong> deserves <strong>the</strong> careful attention <strong>of</strong><br />

students <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> question.<br />

Logos was made flesh,' just as St. Paul does when<br />

he proclaims <strong>the</strong> great mystery <strong>of</strong> ^ God manifest<br />

in <strong>the</strong> flesh.' Best <strong>of</strong> all, it is not by a long coarse

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