Unbegotten

[317] To the Eunomian contention that the word "Unbegotten" is no mere complimentary title, but required by the strictest necessity, in that it involves the confession of what He is, [318] Basil rejoins that it is only one of many negative terms applied to the Deity, none of which completely expresses the Divine Essence.

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

Christ then instructed them as to the nature of their conjunction, and taught them that those who possessed a comprehension of the Unbegotten were sufficient for themselves.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Unbegotten, and say that this is the Cause of all.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Harvey's rendering is: "For, say they, Christ taught them the nature of their copulae, (namely,) that being cognisant of their (limited) perception of the Unbegotten they needed no higher knowledge, and that He enounced," etc. the words seem scarcely capable of yielding this sense: we have followed the interpretation of Billius.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Obj. 7: Further, the Person of the Father is designated not only by the name Father, but also by that of "Unbegotten and Begetter"; and the Son by those of "Word," "Image," and "Begotten"; and the Holy

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

The Holy Ghost is identified like the Word with the Unbegotten; He is a part of the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

… Therefore His own individual dignity must be reserved to the Father as the Unbegotten One, no one being called the cause of His existence: to the Son, likewise, must be given the honor which befits Him, there being to Him a generation from the Father which has no beginning.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

But we say and believe and have taught and do teach, that the Son is not unbegotten, nor in any way part of the Unbegotten; nor from any substance

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

God is the image of the Unbegotten God, the verity of that perfect and supreme nature resides in Him and makes Him the image of the very God.

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

Let us cling in adoration to the true confession of Father and Son, Unbegotten and Only-begotten ineffably,

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898