I'm not sure what is being asked here, but IF the assumption underlying the
question is that LOGOS ought sooner to refer to discourse rather than
narrative, then I think it is a questionable assumption. LOGOS has, of
course, many different meanings (as we seem never to tire of exploring on
this list!), but it originates in a sense of "tell" (LEGW) and "tale" in at
least the two senses of "relate" and "count" or "account." So LOGON DIDONAI
can mean "explain," "offer a reckoning" (as a tally of expenditures), or
"relate a story." And it seems to me that this is meaning enough for Luke's
use of LOGOS to refer to the account he offered in the gospel and to the
account he is about to render in Acts. There is no special association of
LOGOS with discourse as something *oral*.
Carl W. Conrad
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