The Word vs. The Logos

"Hence a person who seeks God with true devotion should not be dominated by the literal text, lest he unwittingly receive not God but things appertaining to God; that is, lest he feel a dangerous affection for the words of Scripture instead of for the Logos."

St. Maximos the Confessor (580-662), First Century on Theology and the Incarnate Dispensation of the Son of God