Ya$kw vozveli1chishasz dela2 tvoz2 gdsi, vsz6 premýdrostiyu sotvor1lъ e3si2.

How numerous are Thy works, O Lord! Thou hast made all things wisely (Psalm 103:24).

Wisdom in the cosmic sense is spoken of in the 28th chapter of the Book of Job. In particular:

23 God knoweth her way, and he knoweth her place. 24 For he looketh unto the ends of the earth, and seeth under all heaven. 25 When He gave weight to the wind, and arranged the water according to measure, 26 when He appointed a statute for the rain, and a way for the thundering lightning, 27 then He saw it, and showed it, prepared it, and tested it again (Job 28:23-27).

These texts are directly related to everything that is said in Jn. 1, 1-3, including the approval of:

All things were made through Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made (John 1:3).

Thus, the Word as Wisdom is the rational principle underlying the world, imparting to it beauty, meaningfulness, logic (from the word "Logos"), wisdom (as a property of the created world). And all because the Word, Wisdom, is an inalienable property, a faculty, a quality inherent in God.

In Him was life, and life was the light of men, v. 4.

Life and light are the key concepts of Jn. Note that the verb "to be" is in the past tense. It means unchanging primordiality.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not enveloped it, v. 5

The characteristic Jn. Contrasting. Light and darkness are material concepts. They also appear in Gen. 1, 4 (as elements of the diversity of the world, in which everything is "good", v. 31). But in Jn. they are symbols primarily of the spiritual plane: the realm of light is God, His Word. In response, faith (appears in v. 12). The consequence of the action of darkness is unbelief, rejection of the Word.

"Did not embrace" — two meanings are possible: "did not crush, did not extinguish" and "did not embrace, did not accept, did not contain"[864].

2) The second part (vv. 6-13) also does not contain anything fundamentally new in relation to the Old Testament at first. First of all, it speaks of the mission of St. John the Baptist, and it speaks with a noticeable polemical tinge ("he was not the light, but was sent to bear witness to the Light," v. 8). Perhaps this is an echo of the polemics with those who revered the Baptist as the Messiah (the style of these words contrasts painfully with the rest of the text of the Prologue). But here, too, global themes are of primary importance, just as the beginning of the Bible speaks of the creation of man. Let us pay attention to the fact that we are talking about "every person", about all people:

There was a true Light, which enlightens every man that cometh into the world, v. 9.