>>14281129 (LB)
You're in the right direction but I interpret it as follows: the Word = God = the Son (flesh and blood through His Word). Jesus was the first, and no one has to suffer the way he has for we have already seen, heard, and now aware.
Peter in ACTS describes Jesus and God as two separate but same in spirit entities. Same yet un-same. He further preaches through his visions that Jesus is beside God and at the right-hand of the throne.