ロゴスとは何を意味するのか？ヨハネによる福音書1章の「言葉」の背後にあるギリシャ語

Logos (λόγος, said LOH-goss) is the ordinary Greek word for “word”: a thing said, together with the thought it carries. It comes from the verb legō, “to say”, and the New Testament uses it 330 times for a message, a saying, a report or a reckoning of accounts. In the opening of John’s Gospel it becomes a name for Jesus Christ: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1),…