The Apostle Paul, moreover, describing created things by species and numbers and orders, speaks as follows, when showing that all things were made through Christ: And in Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and in Him: and He is before all, and He is the head. He therefore manifestly declares that in Christ and through Christ were all things made and created, whether things visible, which are corporeal, or things invisible, which I regard as none other than incorporeal and spiritual powers. But of those things which he had termed generally corporeal or incorporeal, he seems to me, in the words that follow, to enumerate the various kinds, viz., thrones, dominions, principalities, powers, influences. (Book I, Chapter 7, Part 1)

Paul is echoing the gospel of John which identifies Christ with λόγος or logos, intelligence that creates.

This is, at least, the understanding of logos we have derived from Origen and other Neoplatonists.

One hundred fifty years before Origen his fellow Alexandrian understood that, "the Logos of the living God is the bond of everything, holding all things together and binding all the parts, and prevents them from being dissolved and separated." Philo saw logos as divinity active in the world.

In everyday Greek logos is a conversation, an explanation, or story (among other uses).

In our use of logos we strive to tell a story to explain structures and purposes well beyond our immediate comprehension.