p. 219 | A Simple Explanation

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · May 18, 1882

A Simple Explanation.

The late Mr. William Greenfield, was once in company at the house of a friend, with a gentleman of deistical principles, a stranger to him, who put to him the following, among many other questions:—

“Can you give me the reason why Jesus Christ is called ‘the Word?’ What is meant by ‘the Word?’ It is a curious term.”

Mr. Greenfield, unconscious of the motive or the skeptical principles of the inquirer, replied, with the mild simplicity and decision by which his character was marked,—

“I suppose, as words are the medium of communication between us, the term is used in the sacred Scriptures to demonstrate that he is the only medium between God and man; I know no other reason.” The deist’s mouth was shut.