Sentence:  That parallelism affects his picture of man 's disobedience too ; for as it was Christ , the <WSD>Word</WSD> of God , who came to rescue man , so it was disobedience to the word of God in the beginning that brought death into the world , and all our woe . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a manifestation of the mind and will of God