By Water & Blood

Chapter 19: How the divine Scriptures, even before the incarnation, named the Son of God not only Word but a myriad of other titles

It seemed good to me to examine some of these briefly for the present, and to show those who do not know that no Scripture is in harmony with him in his innovations and his turning aside from the sound faith, but that, on the contrary, all of them speak against and testify against the expositions which he has wrongly adopted. This above all needed to be pointed out to those who honor the man, lest perhaps any of them, through inexperience of the divine readings, should suppose that he hits the mark of the truth.

And first we must examine this, which he has also dared to declare first: that before the Son of God was born through the Virgin he was called by no other name than Word. For he says that before the incarnate presence he was nothing other than Word, nor was he named otherwise, except perhaps prophetically; for he says that he both was and was named Word and nothing else, but that after the incarnate presence he obtained also various titles.