<— Previous Entry | Next Entry —> xc. λόγος, μῦθος. Λόγος is
quite as often ‘sermo’ as ‘verbum,’ a connected discourse as a
single word. Indeed, as is well known, there was once no little
discussion whether Λόγος in its very highest application of all
(John 1:1) should not rather be rendered by ‘Sermo’ than by
‘Verbum’; on which controversy see Petavius. De Trin. vi. 1.
4–6. And, not to dwell on this exceptional and purely
theological employment of λόγος, it is frequently in the N. T.
employed to express that word which by supereminent right
deserves the name, being, as it is, “the word of God” (Acts
4:13), “the word of the truth” (2 Tim. 2:15); thus at Luke 1:2;
Jam. 1:22; Acts 6:4. As employed in this sense, it may be
brought into relations of likeness and unlikeness with μῦθος,
between which and λόγος there was at one time but a very slight
difference indeed, one however which grew ever wider, until in
the end a great gulf has separated them each from the other.
There are three distinctly marked stages thr