No other book in the Bible can be compared to the Fourth Gospel, and no other introduction is comparable to the dramatic and magnificent poem with which it commences. It is written in the simplest language possible, and the vocabulary used in the Proem consists of only fourteen key words. Of these, only two, Word and Only Begotten, require further interpretation. In the Authorized Version, only seven words out of the 308 used, have more than two syllables,...