The germ of life of him who was born Jesus was
transferred from the spirit plane or nature to the human plane or
nature.
[163]Jesus was our Lord's human name. It implied his humiliation and
lowly estate, in comparison with the glory which he had with the Father
before the world was. (John 17:5) He existed long before he became a
human being. His prehuman name was the _Logos_, which is translated in
our common version Bible "the Word". The word _Logos_ is therefore one
of the titles of Jesus and should not be translated at all. It means the
spokesman, active agent, or messenger, of Jehovah. St. John, writing
concerning the Logos, who later became Jesus, says: "In the beginning
[which means the beginning of God's creative activity] was the Logos,
and the Logos was with God [the God, Jehovah], and the Logos was a God
[a mighty one]. The same was in the beginning with God [the God,
Jehovah]. All things were made by him [the Logos]; and without him [the
Logos] was not anything made that was made"--he was the active agent of
Jehovah in making all things,--John 1:1-3.
[164]The beginning here referred to could not mean the beginning of God
the Father, because he is from everlasting to everlasting and never had
a beginning. (Psalm 41:13; 90:2) The _work_ of Jehovah, however, had a
beginning, and his creative work is clearly what is here meant.
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