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John 1:10


Footnote:

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across to the other side of (with genitive)

Strong's #1223 diá (a preposition) – a small word, but significant. Properly, across (to the other side), back-and-forth to go all the way through, "successfully across" ("thoroughly"). 1223 (diá) is also commonly used as a prefix and lend the same idea ("thoroughly," literally, "successfully" across to the other side).

and the Order/World has not known Himself. The Order/World as the "masculine" not "knowing himself," that is, where he is from. 

Adam "knew" Eve—his own self. But the Order has not known Himself. He was within "the Order" and the Order was begotten through Her, but the Order has not known Her.

The earliest and most fundamental meaning of κόσμος in classical Greek is “order,” “arrangement,” or “decoration.” This is especially clear in Homeric usage:

  • κατὰ κόσμον = “in order” (Iliad 10.472).

  • κόσμῳ καθίζειν = “to sit in order” (Odyssey 13.77).

  • κόσμον φέρειν = “to bear oneself properly, decently” (Pindar P. 3.82).

  • Also ornament, decoration, especially in relation to women’s attire (Homer, Iliad 14.187).

The etymological sense here relates to the idea of an arrangement that is orderly, beautiful, or harmonious, whether it’s military ranks, ceremonial seating, or adornment.

Philosophical developments, especially from the Pythagoreans (cf. Placit. 2.1.1, Diogenes Laërtius 8.48), applied κόσμος to the ordered whole of the universe—the idea that the heavens and earth form a harmonious system:

  • κόσμος = the ordered arrangement of all things (cf. Heraclitus, fragment 30).

  • Plato and Aristotle expand this usage (Plato, Timaeus 27a; Aristotle, Cael. 280a21).

  • This reflects the belief that the cosmos is a structured, orderly system—just like a well-governed state or a beautifully adorned body.

Thus, the concept of κόσμος as “world” arises from analogy with a well-ordered arrangement, extended to the entire universe.