Logos (The Word)
Jerome's discussion of the Greek term Logos as applied to Christ in the prologue of John's Gospel: it signifies word, reason, reckoning, and the cause through which all things subsist -- all rightly understood in Christ. Neither Plato nor Demosthenes knew this wisdom.
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— Jerome explicates the multiple meanings of Logos in Greek and identifies them all with Christ, contrasting the ignorance of Plato and Demosthenes.
"For the Word (Logos) in Greek means many things: it is both word, and reason, and reckoning, and the cause of each thing through which all individual things that exist subsist -- all of which we rightly understand in Christ. This the learned Plato did not know; this the eloquent Demosthenes was ignorant of."