Section 12
you claim this, you will have wisdom. We have nothing in ourselves, but we have everything through the Word.
What is creation? Creation is calling things not being as being through the Word. The Word is both the means and the sphere. As long as you have the Word, you have the means and the sphere. Thus, you can say, "Because I have the Word as the means and the sphere, things not being can come into being." Learn to say, "Not being as being through the Word." No longer am I apart from the Word. I am in the Word and with the Word. Hence, through the Word things not being come into being.
LIFE IN THE WORD
Now we come to the most important point: life is in the Word. "In Him was life" (1:4). The "Him" in 1:4 denotes the Word who was God and through whom all things came into being. In Him is life. Why did He create all things be fore He came to be life? Because in order for Him to be received as life there was the need of a receptacle, a receiver. Suppose He had not created anything, yet came to be life. To whom would He be life? Although He might be life, there would have been no receiver for Him as