sonship

The assurance of our sonship is the best preparative for temptation.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Still the foundation of all sonship is in Jesus Christ.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

The witness of the Spirit in the believer himself to his own sonship is not here expressed, but follows as a consequence of believing the witness of God to Jesus 'divine Sonship. believeth not God -- credits not His witness. made him a liar -- a consequence which many who virtually, or even avowedly, do not believe, may well startle back from as fearful blasphemy and presumption (1Jo 1: 10). believeth not the record -- Greek, "believeth not IN the record, or witness."

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

And therefore they are called sons of God in respect of imperfect sonship, which is by reason of the likeness of grace, which flows from the whole Trinity.

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

Ideal People, but that the idea of sonship was fulfilled in Him in a way yet more mysterious and yet more essential; in other words, that

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

"God is great," and greatly to be thought about; and if I think about Him loosely my sonship will be a stumbling and an offence.

The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910

Marcellus then agreed with the Arians that the idea of sonship implies beginning and inferiority, so that a Son of God is neither eternal nor equal to the Father.

The Arian Controversy Henry Melvill Gwatkin 1880

Lord is a creature, the conservatives were content to reply that the idea of sonship excludes that of creation, and implies a peculiar relation to and origin from the Father.

The Arian Controversy Henry Melvill Gwatkin 1880

The personal perfection of the individual person is the realization and virtualization of God-sonship, that is, of the idea of man, and of the creative will of God as to man.

Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

This sonship, which is no mere empty name, is the aim and purpose of

Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868