IV.

Argument:  A word is not a person.  Christ is the Word.  Therefore Christ is

not a person.

        I prove the major premise, that a word and a person are different.

Response:  This is a new expression, which was formerly unheard of in the

world.  Christ is not a mathematical or physical word, but a divine and

uncreated word, which signifies a substance and a person, because the divine

Word is the divinity.  Christ is the divine Word.  Therefore he is the

divinity, that is, a substantial person [ipsa substantia et persona]. 

Philosophically, "word" means a sound or an utterance, but speaking

theologically, "Word" signifies the Son of God.  This, Aristotle would not

admit, that "Word" signifies true God [plenum Deum].