We also get by the side of this, but in quite a subordinate place and in a much less advanced stage of personification, the idea of the Word or Logos: 'O God of my fathers ...

who hast made all things with thy word, and ordained man through thy wisdom' [Endnote 286:2].

'It was neither herb nor mollifying plaister that restored them to health: but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.' It was 'the Almighty word' ([Greek: ho pantodunamos logos]) 'that leaped down from heaven' to slay the Egyptians.
But still it will be seen that there is a distinct gap between these conceptions and that which we find in Justin.

The leading idea is that of Wisdom, not of the Word.

The Word is not even personified separately; it is merely the emitted power or energy of God.