Hebrews #34 - 4:12-13 (part 1)
Speaker Notes The Word of God
Collect for Purity
Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid; Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Hebrews 4:12-13
12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
The Gospel of John Volume 1 (Chapters 1 to 7)
Translated with an Introduction and Interpretation by William Barclay (1956) page 13
In Alexandria there was a Jew called Philo. Philo had made it the business of his life to study the wisdom of two worlds, the Jewish and the Greek world.
No man ever knew the Jewish scriptures as he knew them; and no Jew ever knew the greatness of Greek thought as Philo knew it. He too knew and used and loved this idea of the Logos, the Word, the Reason of God. He held that the Logos was the oldest thing in the world and that the Logos was the instrument through which God had made the world. He said that the Logos is the thought of God stamped upon the universe; he talks about the Logos by which God made the world and all things; he says that God, the pilot of the universe, holds the Logos as a tiller, and with it steers all things. He says that man's mind is stamped also with the Logos, that the Logos is that which gives a man reason, the power to think and the power to know. He said that the Logos is the intermediary between the world and God, between the begotten and the unbegotten, that the Logos is the priest which sets the soul before God.
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