1 Corinthians 1:24, and the single most-used definition in the whole corpus: Christ is the power and the wisdom of God. Neville uses it to stop the search for a person before it starts - don't look for a man; a man is only the instrument through which this power and this wisdom are exercised. He always pairs it with John 1:3, which supplies the scope: by him all things were made, and without him was not anything made that was made - so the definition is not devotional but causal, and it licenses the test he then invites. If Christ is the creator of everything, and you set a goal and without raising a finger to make it so it becomes so, then you can trace the cause to your own imaginal act; and if Christ does everything and you know what you did, you have found him. The two halves of the definition are kept working separately: it is not blind power but wisdom, so it knows how to navigate the whole vast world and move it, and nothing needs devising by the one who imagines. Neville also notes which books press which half - Paul states the power, while John, who brings Christology to its height, puts the emphasis on redemption and revelation rather than on power. Coined 2026-09-20 under the architect's ruling on the lexicon boundary (PM 6015/6018/6056): the lexicon holds only bare identity equations that function as a dictionary gloss; a reading of a specific verse, and a teaching claim Neville argues or applies, are motifs. The test given: does he do something with it in the lecture, or does he only state it? Argued or applied means motif.