04_Romanov_391_co_415 30/10/15 13:10 Pagina 393 393 THROUGH ONE LORD ONLY 393 scheme belongs to Logos (or sometimes Sophia). Horsley assumes that the formula in 1 Cor 8,6 is “a Christian adaptation of Hellenis- tic Jewish forms of predication regarding the respective creative and soteriological roles of God and Sophia/Logos, which in turn was an adaptation of a Platonic philosophical formula concerning the primal principle of the universe” 9. Thus, Jesus Christ, according to Horsley, plays the role of God’s instrument in creation and salvation. The idea of a philosophical background for 1 Cor 8,6 is developed by G.E. Sterling 10, although he suggests a scheme slightly different from the scheme of Horsley. Sterling also finds in some NT texts (including 1 Cor 8,6) the influence of those Greek philosophical teachings in which each cause was indicated by the corresponding preposition. He draws the conclusion that the prepositions in these NT texts are used as devices for the separation of different causes. Unlike Horsley, however, Sterling recognizes in these texts not only the elements of Platonic tradition but also the influence of Stoicism. Sterling uses 1 Cor 8,6 as one of the examples for his thesis. In his view, “the text appears to make a distinction between the Father and the Lord through the use of different prepositional phrases (evx ou- versus diV ou-)” 11. He opines that the reference to God looks like a Stoic cosmological formulation, not a Platonic one 12; on the other hand, the latter part of the verse is “balanced […] with a Platonic formula for Christ” 13. In other words, diV ou- designates Platonic “instrumental cause”. The same instrumental cause Sterling recognizes also in Heb 1,2. J.D.G. Dunn finds in 1 Cor 8,6 not so much the presence of Greek philosophy or of Philo’s Logos but the use of the (Hellenis- tic-) Jewish concept of Sophia; in some important points his “Wisdom Christology” differs from the hypotheses of Horsley and Sterling. According to Dunn, in 1 Cor 8,6 “the creator God was himself act- ing in and through Christ” 14. This means that neither Jesus Christ 9 HORSLEY, “The Background”, 135. 10 G.E. STERLING, “Prepositional Metaphysics in Jewish Wisdom Specu- lation and Early Christian Liturgical texts”, The Studia Philonica Annual – Studies in Hellenistic Judaism IX (1997) 219-238. 11 STERLING, “Prepositional Metaphysics”, 235. 12 Sterling does not find in Platonism the use of evk as a characteristic of the first cause. 13 STERLING, “Prepositional Metaphysics”, 236. 14 J.D.G. DUNN, Christology in the Making. An Inquiry into the Origins of the Doctrine of the Incarnation (London 1980) 195. Recently Dunn reaf-