The Word was A God by Rev. W.E. Manley D.D. 1891

The Word was A God by Rev. W.E. Manley D.D. (published in The Arena, Volume 4 1891)

That Trinitarians should translate this expression, The Word was God, in John i. 1, might be expected; but by the rules of translating the Greek language into English, the expression should be, The Word was a god. The rule of Middleton that the article must not be used in the predicate of a sentence may hold good, when it conflicts with no superior rule; but if taken absolutely, it has many exceptions. I suppose the renowned Origen understood the Greek language. He interprets the passage before its as I do. "Origen uses QEOS (god), not in our modern sense, as a proper name, but as a common name. This use of the term, which was common to him with his contemporaries, and continued to be common after his time, is illustrated by his remarks on the passage, 'and the Logos was God'; in which he contended, that the Logos was god, in an inferior sense; — not as we would say God, but a god, not the divine being, but a divine being. (Opp. iv. p. 48, reqq.)."

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