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  • Who, together with Thine only-begotten Son and the Holy Ghost, art one God, one Lord: not in the Oneness of a single Person, but in the Trinity of one Substance.

    Trinity Sunday: Musings 2009

  • G rant, we beseech Thee, almighty God: that we, who believe Thine only-begotten Son, our Redeemer, to have ascended on this day into heaven, may also ourselves dwell in mind amid heavenly things.

    In Ascensione Domini - The Ascension of Our Lord 2009

  • So also when John says in John 1:18 "No man has ever seen God but the only-begotten Son has declared him" you are only hindered from seeing that he is saying the god of the OT is not the real God because he was seen and the real God hasn't been seen before but now will be manifested by Jesus--you are only hindered from seeing this by interpolations in the prologue.

    Is John 3 Meant To Be A Historically Plausible Narrative? James F. McGrath 2010

  • It is precisely besides the path of man's eternal election to the dignity of being an adopted child of God that there stands in history the Cross of Christ, the only-begotten Son ... —

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2008

  • It is precisely besides the path of man's eternal election to the dignity of being an adopted child of God that there stands in history the Cross of Christ, the only-begotten Son ... —

    Theosis: The Reason for the Season 2008

  • O God, You were pleased to bestow Your grace upon Anne so that she might fitly become the mother of her who was to bear Your only-begotten Son; grant that we who keep her feast will be helped by her protection.

    St Anne, "Flowering, Fruitful Rod of Jesse" aussieannie 2009

  • "The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods." par 460 So that "we might become God"?

    Archive 2009-01-11 2009

  • Quite the opposite: “God sent his only-begotten Son into the world so that we might have life through him.”

    Archive 2009-01-04 2009

  • And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten, begotten of the Father before all ages.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Are we meant to be here? 2007

  • The mystery of Mary and the mystery of the only-begotten Son of God, who becomes man, form a single mystery, in which one helps to better understand the other.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

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