Answering Islam·May 24, 2026 Origen: Trinity, Creatio Ex Nihilo & the Church as Spiritual Israel Pt. 2
I continue from where I left off from Book II of Origen’s commentary on John: Origen: Trinity, Creatio Ex Nihilo & the Church as Spiritual Israel.
22. The Word Was in the Beginning, I.e., in Wisdom, Which Contained All Things in Idea, Before They Existed. Christ's Character as Wisdom is Prior to His Other Characters.
So many meanings occur to us at once of the word arche. We have now to ask which of them we should adopt for our text, In the beginning was the Word. It is plain thOrigen: Trinity, Creatio Ex Nihilo & the Church as Spiritual Israel·God