The Greek Idea of Lagos

In the first century b c, there was a discussion of the lagos in the greek world. Even even jewish philosopher philo talked about the lagos. This was a very greek concept that gentiles would have understood. If you're a greek and you hear john start with, in the beginning, was the lagos, you're thinking, yesal all the philosophers say that, ye. There's nothing new about that. Thatis totally in the beginning. The lagas is more transcendent than a person. And so in this first paragraph, john is talking about this thing that makes total sense, except for this. He's king this lagos thing in