[144] 1 Cor. i 30.
[145] Philipp. ii 6.
[146] ‘That which was from the beginning ... concerning the Word of life’ 1 John i 1; ‘his name is the Word of God’ Rev. xix 13.
[147] John i 1 to 3.
[148] John i 12 to 14.
[149] ‘apud vestros quoque sapientes λόγον (id est sermonem atque rationem) constat artificem videri universitatis’ Tert. Apol. 21; ‘Zeno opificem universitatis λόγον praedicat, quem et fatum et necessitatem et animum Iovis nuncupat’ Lact. Div. inst. iv 9. Naturally the Christian writers regard the Stoic doctrine of the Logos as an ‘anticipation’ of their own, exactly as in modern times the Darwinists, having borrowed from Epicurus the doctrine of atoms, regard the original doctrine as a ‘marvellous anticipation’ of modern science. Justin Martyr goes further, and concludes that all believers in the Logos were (by anticipation) Christians: οἱ μετὰ λόγου βιώσαντες Χριστιανοί εἰσι κἂν ἄθεοι ἐνομίσθησαν Apol. i 46.
[150] The term is first used by Theophilus (c. 180 A.D.), of God, his Word, and his Wisdom.
[151] In this passage an ‘anticipation’ of the doctrine of the Trinity has many times been discovered; for instance in the 18th century by the Jesuit Huet (Winckler, der Stoicismus, p. 9); in our own country by Dr Heberden (see Caesar Morgan, An investigation of the Trinity of Plato, Holden’s edition, 1853, p. 155); and again recently by Amédée Fleury and others (Winckler, p. 8).
[153] For instance in 1 John v 8, and (in substance) in 1 Cor. xiii 13.