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Why not translate it as “consciousness“? Seems quite obvious to me?

• shagie 2y ago
  It likely came that way via the Vulgate ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate ) which was a translation of Greek into Latin in the fourth century. It was the official Catholic version in 1545 - 1563 (the KJV was translated in 1611). in principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat Verbum Though going back to logos - even that word changed meaning over the the centuries from Heraclitus (5th century BC) ( https://chs.harvard.edu/chapter/17-the-heraclitean-logos/ https://chs.harvard.edu/chapter/17-the-heraclitean-logos/ https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/12/logos-of-heraclitus.html https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/12/logos-of-hera... https://modernstoicism.com/heraclitus-and-the-birth-of-the-logos/ https://modernstoicism.com/heraclitus-and-the-birth-of-the-l... ) to the neoplatonist school (3rd century AD) The early Christian church traditions were a battlefield of dueling scriptures and philosophies. Some books that I'd recommend on that area. Note that my approach to the Bible isn't one of a believer but rather as another work of ancient philosophy (which was my favorite philosophy class of my almost not getting a CS degree) and stoicism is the branch within there that I've read the most of. https://www.amazon.com/Stoicism-Early-Christianity-Tuomas-Rasimus/dp/0801039517 https://www.amazon.com/Stoicism-Early-Christianity-Tuomas-Ra... https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Christianities-Battles-Scripture-Faiths/dp/0195182499 https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Christianities-Battles-Scripture... https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Scriptures-Books-that-Testament/dp/B094NY25JC https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Scriptures-Books-that-Testament/...