Letter 033 — The Story: He Pitched His Tent Among Us (John 1)
The eternal Word who made the cosmos pitched a tent in our streets. Eighteen verses that walk from cosmic geometry to a body you could have touched.
In this letter
- The three statements of verse 1 — was, was with God, was God
- Greek pros — face-to-face relationship
- The grammar question of the Word was God
- The double heritage of Logos — Greek philosophy and Hebrew utterance
- Katalambanō — comprehend or overcome (G2638)
- John the Baptist as witness, not light
- The maker rejected by the made
- Verse 14 as the hinge — the Word became flesh
- Skēnoō (G4637) — to pitch a tent, to…
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