What clues from John’s general usage of ‘the word’ (or similar terms) help us to understand the referent of ‘the word’ in John’s prologue?
Much debate has been had over the use of ‘the word’ in John’s prologue. Many early English translations translated the relevant pronoun in John 1:2-4 as ‘it’ instead of ‘he’, suggesting the referent to not be a male person but a thing.
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