The Anchor Bible, Ephesians 1-3, page 111 states,
“IN THE TALMUD tractate Pesachim 54a; cf. Nedarim 39b,seven things, i.e. the law, repentance, paradise, Gehinnom, the throne of glory, the heavenly sanctuary, and THE MESSIAH(is) are not called pre-created, but pre-conceived in (God’s) thoughts.”
The ancient Jews during the time of Christ believed that the Messiah was “pre-conceived” in God’s expressed thoughts. Thus we can understand why the apostle John, being a Jew, would have written that the word (logos = “expressed thought”) of God was with Him in John 1:1 and was later made flesh in John 1:14 to become the living Messiah who was “granted a life in himself” by his Father (John 5:26).
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