Christians would subsequently use it to identify Jesus in his prehuman existence, as delineated in the Gospel
The Eastern Orthodox theologian Apostolos Makrakis founded a school on Crete named after this, and it appears in Stoicism as a term identifying the principle of cosmic reason [*] which made the universe accessible to humanity. Philo Judaeus preferred its masculine gender to the feminine "Sophia," or "Wisdom" of Jewish thought. Philo's understanding of the term can be explained by a literal reading of the Book of Genesis, in which God's first act was to speak, thus creating this. Christians would subsequently use it to identify Jesus in his prehuman existence, as delineated in the Gospel According to John. FTP, identify this term, meaning Greek for "word."
The Eastern Orthodox theologian Apostolos Makrakis founded a school on Crete named after this, and it appears in Stoicism as a term identifying the principle of cosmic reason [*] which made the universe accessible to humanity.
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