DLord 1 - The Lord is the Word

DLord 1 -

UNIVERSAL HOLY SCRIPTURE TREATS OF THE LORD:

THE LORD IS THE WORD.
We read in John:

In the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God,

and God was the Word.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by Him,

and without Him was not anything made that was made.

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

And the light shines in the darkness,

and the darkness comprehended it not.

(John 1:1-5)

The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,

and we beheld His glory,

the glory as of the Only-begotten of the Father,

full of grace and truth.

(John 1:14)

While you have the Light,

believe in the Light,

that you may be sons of Light.

I am come a Light into the world,

that whosoever believes in Me

should not abide in the darkness.

(John 12:36, 46)

From these passages it is evident

that the Lord is God from eternity,

and that this God is the selfsame Lord

who was born in the world;

for it is said that the Word was with God,

and God was the Word,

and also that without Him

was not anything made that was made;

and it is added that the Word was made flesh,

and they beheld Him.

It is but little understood in the church

why the Lord is called the Word.

It is because "the Word"

signifies Divine truth or Divine wisdom,

and the Lord is Divine truth itself or Divine wisdom itself.

And this is why He is called the Light,

of which also it is said that it came into the world.

As the Divine wisdom and the Divine love make a one,

and in the Lord had been a one from eternity,

it is said, "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men."

"Life" is Divine love;

and "light" is Divine wisdom.

. . . As therefore the Word

is the Divine wisdom of the Divine love,

it follows that it is Jehovah Himself,

thus the Lord by whom all things were made that are made;

for all things have been created from Divine love

by means of Divine wisdom.