 And so we see here in Proverbs 8.23, the book of Sirach, chapter 24, verse 9, great examples of how the wisdom of God was there from the very, very beginning. So John, like a great artist, he's pulling all this together, and he knows that this term, the word, means something to the Gentiles, to the Greeks, if you will, and it also means something to the Jews. And of course, there's a tradition that John himself is from Israel,