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Quotes About Begotten

Christ Not Begotten of Holy Ghost... Christ was begotten of God. He was not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was God!
~ Joseph Fielding Smith
O heavens! this is my true-begotten father.
~ William Shakespeare
He who denies sex is a filthy person who smears in the lowest way his own parents who have begotten him
~ Egon Schiele
Jesus always existed. At the same time Jesus was begotten (made human). This is the perplexing and elusive mystic core of Christian faith.
~ Amos Smith
The prophets speak of a Messiah who is the begotten Son of HaShem," Simeon said. "And if they truly spoke for HaShem, then He is coming, just as the prophets foretold. From where is He coming? HaShem knows, and when it is time, He will send Him.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Thus the Son who was not, but existed at the paternal will, Is only begotten God, and he is distinct from everything else.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
The Lord said unto me, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
~ Eusebius
Messiah, "He shall be called a Nazarene." He was also well acquainted with the Davidic Psalm that spoke of Yahweh having a unique Son. "You are my Son; today I have begotten you. Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, and the ends of the earth your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
~ Brian Godawa
However, the word translated "begotten" comes from genos, meaning "kind" or "sort," not from genna?, "to beget." At the least, John means to say that Jesus is the only one of his class.
~ George Eldon Ladd
Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.
~ Bruce R. McConkie
The waves, the girl in the rain, and that awful, blood-begotten stom. Blood and love and loss.
~ Terri Farley
So when did these last two originate? They transcend "whenness," but if I must give a naive answer—when the Father did. When was that? There has not been a "when" when the Father has not been in existence. This, then, is true of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Put another question and I will answer it. Since when has the Son been begotten? Since as long as the Father has not been begotten.
~ Gregory of Nyssa
Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and a ghost-woman with ashes on her breath. They clasped and sundered, did the coupler's will.
~ James Joyce
Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.
~ Percival Lowell
The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.
~ William Ames