12. Acting then in these (prophets), the Word spoke of Himself. For already He became His own herald, and showed that the Word would be manifested among men. And for this reason He cried thus:  “I am made manifest to them that sought me not; I am found of them that asked not for me.”62    Isa. lxv. 1. And who is He that is made manifest but the Word of the Father?—whom the Father sent, and in whom He showed to men the power proceeding from Him. Thus, then, was the Word made manifest, even as the blessed John says. For he sums up the things that were said by the prophets, and shows that this is the Word, by whom all things were made. For he speaks to this effect: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made.”63    John i. 1–3. Hippolytus evidently puts the full stop at the οὐδὲ εν, attaching the ο γέγονεν to the following. So also Irenæus, Clemens Alex., Origen, Theophilus of Antioch, and Eusebius, in several places; so, too, of the Latin Fathers—Tertullian, Lactantius, Victorinus, Augustine; and long after these, Honorius Augustodunensis, in his De imagine Mundi. This punctuation was also adopted by the heretics Valentinus, Heracleon, Theodotus, and the Macedonians and Eunomians; and hence it is rejected by Epiphanius, ii. p. 80, and Chrysostom. (Fabricius.) And beneath He says, “The world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not; He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.”64    John i. 10, 11. If, then, said he, the world was made by Him, according to the word of the prophet, “By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made,”65    Ps. xxxiii. 6. then this is the Word that was also made manifest. We accordingly see the Word incarnate, and we know the Father by Him, and we believe in the Son, (and) we worship the Holy Spirit. Let us then look at the testimony of Scripture, with respect to the announcement of the future manifestation of the Word.

[12] ἐν τούτοις τοίνυν πολιτευόμενος ὁ Λόγος ἐφθέγγετο περὶ ἑαυτοῦ. ἤδη γὰρ αὐτὸς ἑαυτοῦ κῆρυξ ἐγίνετο δεικνύων μέλλοντα Λόγον φαίνεσθαι ἐν ἀνθρώποις. δι' ἣν αἰτίαν οὕτως ἐβόα, Ἐμφανὴς ἐγενόμην τοῖς ἐμὲ μὴ ζητοῦσιν: εὑρέθην τοῖς ἐμὲ μὴ ἐπερωτῶσιν. τίς δέ ἐστιν ὁ ἐμφανὴς γενόμενος ἀλλ' ἢ ὁ Λόγος τοῦ Πατρός, ὃν ἀποστέλλων Πατὴρ ἐδείκνυεν ἀνθρώποις τὴν παρ' ἑαυτοῦ ἐξουσίαν; οὕτως οὖν ἐμφανὴς ἐγένετο ὁ Λόγος καθὼς λέγει. ἀνακεφαλαιοῦται γὰρ ὁ μακάριος Ἰωάννης τὰ διὰ τῶν προφητῶν εἰρημένα δεικνὺς τοῦτον εἶναι τὸν Λόγον δι' οὗ τὰ πάντα ἐγένετο. φησὶν γὰρ οὕτως, Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος καὶ ὁ Λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν καὶ Θεὸς ἦν ὁ Λόγος 〚ἦν πρὸς τὸν Θεόν〛. πάντα δι' αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν. ὑποβὰς δὲ ἔφη, Ὁ κόσμος δι' αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο καὶ ὁ κόσμος αὐτὸν οὐκ ἔγνω: εἰς τὰ ἴδια ἦλθεν καὶ οἱ ἴδιοι αὐτὸν οὐ παρέλαβον. εἰ οὖν ἔφη, Ὁ κόσμος δι' αὐτοῦ γεγένηται, καθὼς λέγει ὁ προφήτης, Τῷ Λόγῳ Κυρίου οἱ οὐρανοὶ ἐστερεώθησαν, ἄρα οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Λόγος ὁ καὶ ἐμφανὴς δεικνύμενος. οὐκοῦν ἔνσαρκον Λόγον θεωροῦμεν; Πατέρα δι' αὐτοῦ νοοῦμεν, Υἱῷ δὲ πιστεύομεν, πνεύματι ἁγίῳ προσκυνοῦμεν.