Heraclitus and the logos

Heraclitus takes logos — a merchant's word for a reckoning, a ratio, an account — and hands it to the structure of the world.

In plain words

Heraclitus takes logos, a merchant's word for an account or a reckoning, and uses it for the order of the world. About six centuries later John's Gospel opens on that same word and gives it to a person: John did not coin his first line, he collected it.

The mechanism

THE VOCABULARY CUT AND SEASONED BEFORE IT IS NEEDED — six centuries later a Gospel opens on that exact word and attaches it to a person. John didn't coin his first line; he collected it

Scripture

John 1:1

How it was checked

• EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED
• Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
• Plate — The Derveni papyrus, column IV, quoting Heraclitus · Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Derveni_papyrus_-_fragment_Heraclitus_-_col._iv,_10-13.jpg
• SourcesSECULAR RECORD — the fragments; Stoic transmission; John 1:1