Grasping The Word

Καὶ γὰρ ὅταν ὁμολογῶσι Λόγον, τῷ ἐνδιαθέτῳ αὐτὸν παρεικάζουσι· καὶ σοφίαν λέγοντες, ὁμοίαν εἶναι λέγουσι τῇ ἔξει τῇ ἐν ψυχῇ τῶν πεπαιδευμένων συνισταμένῃ· καὶ διὰ τοῦτο πρόσωπον ἕν Πατρὸς καὶ Υἱοῦ, ἐπειδὴ καὶ ἄνθρωπος εἶς λέγεται, οὐ διαιρούμενος ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνυπρχοντος αὐτῷ λόγου καί τῆς σοφίας. Καίτοι ὁ εὐαγελλιστης εὐθύς ἐκ προοιμίων βοᾷ· καὶ Θεὸς ἦν ὁ Λόγος, ἰδίαν ὕπαρξιν διδοὺς τῷ Υἱῷ. Εἰ γὰρ ἐν καρδιᾳ ἦν ὁ Λόγος, πῶς ἂν ἐνοήθη Θεός; πῶς δ' ἂν ἦν πρὸς τὸν Θεόν; Ἐπειδὴ οὔτε ὁ ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ λόγος ἄνθρωπος, οὔτε πρὸς οὐτὸν εἶναι λέγεται, ἀλλ' ἐν αὐτῷ. Οὔτε γὰρ ζῶν ἐστιν, οὔτε ὑφεστώς· ὁ δὲ τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγος ζωή ἐστι καὶ ἀλήθεια. Καὶ ὁ μὲν λόγος ὁ ἡμέτερος ὁμοῦ τε ἐλέχθη καὶ οὐκ ἔστι· περὶ δὲ τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγου τί φησιν ὁ Ψαλμός; Εἰς τὸν αἰωνα, Κύριε, ὁ Λόγος σου διαμένει ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ. Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας,Ὁμολία ΚΔ', Κατὰ Σαβελλιανῶν, καὶ Ἀρείου, καὶ τῶν Ἀνομοίων Source: Migne PG 31.601a-b

For when they confess the Word, they compare Him with a word which is conceived in the mind, and when they name Him wisdom, they say He is like that which dwells in the soul of the learned, and therefore they profess the Father and the Son to be one person, because man is also said to be one and not divided because of the words in him and because of wisdom. But the evangelist right at the beginning cries out: 'And God was the Word,' 1 giving to the Son His own existence. For if the Word was in the heart, how can He have been understood to be God? And how was He with God? 1 For neither the word which is in man, is man, not is it with him, but it is in him. Nor is it living, nor is it subsisting, but the Word of the God is life and truth. 2 And certainly our word when it has been spoken, it is no more, but what does the Psalm say of the Word of God? 'In eternity, O Lord, your word remains in heaven.' 3 Saint Basil of Caesarea, from Homily 24, Against the Sabellians and Arians and Anomeans 1 Jn 1.1 2 Jn 14.6 3 Ps 118.89