Seed and Speech

Theological Reflections on the Third Day of Creation

Christian interpreters have classically taken the reference to God’s speaking the world into being within Genesis 1 as an allusion to the preeminent role of Jesus Christ, the Hypostatic Word of God, in the creation of the world. The Gospel of John, therefore, recalls the language of Genesis: “in the beginning was the Word” (John 1:1). Modernist interpre…