David Bentley Hart on John's Prologue

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"...the Greek of John's prologue may reflect what was, at the time of its composition, a standard semantic distinction between the articular and inarticular (or arthrous and anarthrous) forms of the word "theos": the forms, "ho theos" (as in "pros ton theon," where the accusative form of article and noun follow the preposition), was generally used to refer to God in the fullest and most proper sense: God Most High, the transcendent One; the latter, however, "theos" (as in "kai theos ên ho logos"), could be used of any divine being, however finite: a god or a derivative divine agency, say, or even a divinized mortal."

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