Basil the Great
Catena Aurea · Johannesevangelium 1
Joh 1, 1English original
In the beginning was the Word,
(Hom. in Princ. Joan. c. 3) Wherefore then Word? Because born impassibly, the Image of Him that begat, manifesting all the Father in Himself; abstracting from Him nothing, but existing perfect in Himself.