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d) Theos is used (1) with the definite article, (2) without (i.e., as an anarthrous noun). "The English may or may not have need of the article in translation. But that point cuts no figure in the Greek idiom. Thus in Acts 27:23 ('the God whose I am,' RV) the article points out the special God whose Paul is, and is to be preserved in English. In the very next verse (ho theos) we in English do not need the articles" (A. T. Robertson, Gram. of Greek, NT, p. 758).
As to this latter it is usual to employ the article with a proper name, when
mentioned a second time. There are, of course, exceptions to this, as when the
absence of the article serves to lay stress upon, or give precision to, the
character or nature of what is expressed in the noun. A notable instance of
this is in John 1:1, "and the Word was God;" here a double stress is
on theos, by the absence of
the article and by the emphatic position. To translate it literally, "a god was the Word," is entirely
misleading. Moreover, that "the Word" is the subject of the
sentence, exemplifies the rule that the subject is to be determined by its
having the article when the predicate is anarthrous
(without the article). In Rom.
To translate it literally, "a
god was the Word," is entirely misleading.
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To translate it literally,
"a god was the Word," is entirely misleading.---What
is misleading here is what has been Omitted—and
that is--
At the time the New Testament
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The fact is that the Nicene Council Creeds declared Jesus to
be God -not god
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with his Devine Father
Can any Uncreated Spirit Being or any other Uncreated Creature have a Father?—
Not according to the definition of the only OneEternalOne- open TheEternalOneGod.htm Plus JOHN1onePLUS.htm
There are many meanings to the word Eternal Open everlasting and age (some definitions copied below) and what
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Open [only begotten][ begin, beginning, beginner][ [first-begotten, firstborn][firstfruit(s)][ create, creation, creator, creature][ ][ruler][
eternal and everlasting and age] Compare life in the age.
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1 After Jesus said these things, he raised his eyes to the sky and said, ‘Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son, so your son can glorify You. 2 And You have put him over all flesh; so, now he can give life in the age, to all those who You have given to him. 3 This knowledge of You, the only true God, and of the one who You sent, Jesus the Anointed, means life in the age.
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<1,,3439,monogenes>
is used five times, all in the writings of the Apostle John, of Christ as the
Son of God; it is translated "only begotten" in Heb.
With reference to Christ, the phrase "the only begotten from the Father," John 1:14, RV (see also the marg.), indicates that as the Son of God He was the sole representative of the Being and character of the One who sent Him. In the original the definite article is omitted both before "only begotten" and before "Father," and its absence in each case serves to lay stress upon the characteristics referred to in the terms used. The Apostle's object is to demonstrate what sort of glory it was that he and his fellow Apostles had seen. That he is not merely making a comparison with earthly relationships is indicated by para, "from." The glory was that of a unique relationship and the word "begotten" does not imply a beginning of His Sonship. It suggests relationship indeed, but must be distinguished from generation as applied to man.
We can only rightly understand the term "the only begotten" when used of the Son, in the sense of unoriginated relationship. "The begetting is not an event of time, however remote, but a fact irrespective of time. The Christ did not become, but necessarily and eternally is the Son. He, a Person, possesses every attribute of pure Godhood. This necessitates eternity, absolute being; in this respect He is not 'after' the Father" (Moule). The expression also suggests the thought of the deepest affection, as in the case of the OT word yachid, variously rendered, "only one," Gen. 22:2,12; "only son," Jer. 6:26; Amos 8:10; Zech. 12:10; "only beloved," Prov. 4:3, and "darling," Ps. 22:20; 35:17.
In John 1:18 the clause "the only begotten son, which is in the bosom
of the Father," expresses both His eternal union with the Father in the
Godhead and the ineffable intimacy and love between them, the Son sharing all
the Father's counsels and enjoying all His affections. Another reading is monogenes Theos, "God only-begotten." In John 3:16 the statement, "God so
loved the world that He gave His only begotten son," must not be taken to
mean that Christ became the only begotten son by incarnation. The value and the
greatness of the gift lay in the Sonship of Him who
was given. His Sonship was not the effect of His
being given. In John 3:18 the phrase "the name of the only begotten son of
God" lays stress upon the full revelation of God's character and will, His
love and grace, as conveyed in the name of One who, being in a unique
relationship to Him, was provided by Him as the object of faith. In 1 John 4:9
the statement "God hath sent His
only begotten son into the world" does not mean that God sent out
into the world one who at His birth in
<1,,4416,prototokos>
"firstborn" (from protos,
"first," and tikto, "to beget"),
is used of Christ as born of the Virgin Mary, Luke 2:7; further, in His
relationship to the Father, expressing His priority to, and preeminence over,
creation, not in the sense of being the "first" to be born. It is
used occasionally of superiority of position in the OT; see Exod.
4:22; Deut. 21:16,17, the prohibition being against
the evil of assigning the privileged position of the "firstborn" to
one born subsequently to the "first" child.
The five passages in the NT relating to Christ may be set forth chronologically thus: (a) Col. 1:15, where His eternal relationship with the Father is in view, and the clause means both that He was the "Firstborn" before all creation and that He Himself produced creation (the genitive case being objective, as ver. 16 makes clear); (b) Col. 1:18; Rev. 1:5, in reference to His resurrection; (c) Rom. 8:29, His position in relationship to the church; (d) Heb. 1:6, RV, His Second Advent (the RV "when He again bringeth in," puts "again" in the right place, the contrast to His First Advent, at His birth, being implied); cp. Ps. 89:27: The word is used in the plural, in Heb. 11:28, of the firstborn sons in the families of the Egyptians, and in Ps. 12:23, of the members of the Church.
Note: With (a) cp. John
<1,,3776,ouisia>
derived from a present participial form of eimi,
"to be," denotes "substance, property," Luke
<2,,5224,huparchonta>
the neuter plural of the present participle of huparcho,
"to be in existence," is used as a noun with the article, signifying
one's "goods," and translated "substance" in Luke 8:3. See
GOODS, POSSESS, A, No. 3.
<3,,5223,huparxis>
existence (akin to No. 2), possession: see POSSESS, B, No. 4.
<4,,5287,hupostasis>
for which see CONFIDENCE, A No. 2, is translated "substance" (a) in
Heb. 1:3, of Christ as "the very image" of God's
"substance;" here the word has the meaning of the real nature of that
to which reference is made in contrast to the outward manifestation (see the
preceding clause); it speaks of the Divine essence of God existent and
expressed in the revelation of His Son. The AV, "person" is an
anachronism; the word was not so rendered till the 4th cent. Most of the
earlier
<1,,165,aion>
"an age," is translated "eternal" in Eph. 3:11, lit.,
"(purpose) of the ages" (marg.). See
<2,,166,aionios>
"describes duration, either undefined but not endless, as in Rom.
"The predominant meaning of aionios, that in which it is used everywhere in the NT, save the places noted above, may be seen in 2 Cor. 4:18, where it is set in contrast with proskairos, lit., 'for a season,' and in Philem. 1:15, where only in the NT it is used without a noun. Moreover it is used of persons and things which are in their nature endless, as, e.g., of God, Rom. 16:26; of His power, 1 Tim. 6:16, and of His glory, 1 Pet. 5:10; of the Holy Spirit, Heb. 9:14; of the redemption effected by Christ, Heb. 9:12, and of the consequent salvation of men, Heb. 5:9, as well as of His future rule, 2 Pet. 1:11, which is elsewhere declared to be without end, Luke 1:33; of the life received by those who believe in Christ, John 3:16, concerning whom He said, 'they shall never perish,' John 10:28, and of the resurrection body, 2 Cor. 5:1, elsewhere said to be 'immortal,' 1 Cor. 15:53, in which that life will be finally realized, Matt. 25:46; Titus 1:2.
"Aionios is also used of the sin that 'hath never forgiveness,' Mark 3:29, and of the judgment of God, from which there is no appeal, Heb. 6:2, and of the fire, which is one of its instruments, Matt. 18:8; 25:41; Jude 1:7, and which is elsewhere said to be 'unquenchable,' Mark 9:43. "The use of aionios here shows that the punishment referred to in 2 Thess. 1:9, is not temporary, but final, and, accordingly, the phraseology shows that its purpose is not remedial but retributive." * [* From Notes on Thessalonians by Hogg and Vine, pp. 232,233.]
<3,,126,aidios>
see EVERLASTING.
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