109 Philo, On the Making of the World 20-23.
106Cf. E. Haupt, Der Brief an die Kolosser (Göttingen, 1897), pp. 30-31 on ἐναὐτῷ in Col. 1:16 and Eph. 1:4.
107Gk. δɩά, as in 1 Cor. 8:6; Heb. 1:2; John 1:3, cited in the exposition above.
108On the punctuation of John 1:3-4 see B. M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (London/New York, 1971), pp. 195-96.
109Philo, On the Making of the World 20-23.
110Cf. p. 59, n. 94.
111Where God speaks and creation springs into existence; cf. Ps. 33:6, “By the word of the LORD the heavens were made. . . .”
112Heb. ’āmôn (Prov. 8:30). The rendering “master workman” ’ōmēn; cf. Num. 11:12, where it means “nursing father”) was suggested by Rabbi Hoshaiah (in the first half of the 3rd cent.); he revocalized ’ āmôn accordingly (GenR 1.1 on Gen. 1:1; see p. 59, n. 93). The ἀμήν of Rev. 3:14 (where the risen Christ calls himself “the Amen, . . . the beginning of the creation of God”) perhaps echoes the ’āmôn of Prov. 8:30. By Hoshaiah, as in normative Judaism generally, wisdom was identified with the tôrāh, “the desirable instrument with which the world was created” (R. Aqiba in Pirqê’Abôt 3.18). See also p. 65, n. 125.