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Joh_1:2 again emphatically combines the first and second clauses of Joh_1:1, in order to connect with them the work of creation, which was wrought by the λόγος .[75] In this way, however, the subject also of the third clause of Joh_1:1 is included in and expressed by οὗτος . On this οὗτος —to which, then, πάντα standing at the beginning of Joh_1:3 significantly corresponds—lies the emphasis in the continuation of the discourse. In Joh_1:2 is given the necessary premiss to Joh_1:3; for if it was this same Logos, and no other than He, who Himself was God, who lived in the beginning in fellowship with God, and consequently when creation began, the whole creation, nothing excepted, must have come into existence through Him. Thus it is assumed, as a self-evident middle term, that God created the world not immediately, but, according to Genesis 1, through the medium of the Word.
[75] Who accordingly now worked as λόγος προφορικός .