Q. Why was the Lord Jesus called the “Word”?
A. He is called the “Word,” as the Person who is the impersonation of the mind of God in the abstract. Eternal in His being — “In the beginning was the Word”; having a personal existence — “The Word was with God”; His deity expressed in the words “And the Word was God”; His eternal personality in the words, “The same was in the beginning with God.” The Word then, was, before all creation, eternal; in nature divine; in person distinct, and in personality eternal: the expression of the whole mind that subsists in God.