first-begotten

Being the Only-Begotten Son of the Father is not something that takes up the same sort of ontological space as being the first-begotten son of Joseph the Carpenter from Nazareth.

Musing still on VB Sam Norton 2006

Ogdoads, preserving the number of the first-begotten and primary Ogdoad as the Pleroma.

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

But those who scoff [at the truth] assert that these men were from another essence, and they do not know the first-begotten from the dead; understanding

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Accordingly He revealed to us all that we have perceived by His grace out of the Scriptures, so that we know Him to be the first-begotten of

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But the father without birth and without name, perceiving that they would be destroyed, sent his own first-begotten Nous (he it is who is called Christ) to bestow deliverance on them that believe in him, from the power of those who made the world.

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

Others still, however, have called their primary and first-begotten

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For the knowledge which through Christ He conveyed to all, He might long before have imparted through Logos, who was also the first-begotten of Monogenes.

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Then, again, their first and first-begotten Ogdoad will be overthrown as follows: They must admit that Bythus and Sige, Nous and

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For they who affirm that the Son is the Father, are proved neither to have become acquainted with the Father, nor to know that the Father of the universe has a Son; who also, being the first-begotten Word of

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Jesus -- taking Him, the first-begotten of the Virgin, into his hands, blessed God, and said, "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word: because mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, which Thou hast prepared before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of Thy people Israel;"

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