Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE RELATION OF THE PRE-EXISTENT JESUS TO THE DEITY. Section II. THE PRE-EXISTENT JESUS AS THE SON OF GOD. THE relationship subsisting between the Higher Nature of Christ and the Supreme God is further defined by the terms, Son, vlos; The Son, d vios, The Son of God, o vlds Tov eov; The Son of the Highest, vios vii'orov; The Son of the Blessed, d vlos Tov evoyrfrov, The only-begotten Son, d f-ovoyevrf’; vios; The beloved Son, d aycon/fros vlo’s; The Son of the Father, d vios Tov irarpos. Not only does Christ appropriate to Himself the title Son of God in the Synop- tists (Matt. xi. 27; Luke x. 22; xxii. 70), as well as in the Fourth Gospel (John v. 19, 20, 21, 22; x. 36; xi. 4; xiv. 13; xvii. 1), but the like appellation is accorded to Him by all the four Evangelists (Matt. iii. 17; iv. 3, 6; Mark i. 1, n; Luke iii. 22; iv. 41; John i. 18; xx. 31), by the Baptist (John iii. 36), by Nathanael (John i. 49), by Peter (John vi. 69 [?] ), by Martha (John xi. 27), in the Pauline Epistles (Rom. i. 4; 1 Cor. i. 9; 2 Cor. i. 19; Gal. ii. 20; Eph. iv. 13; Col. i. 13; 1 Thess. i. 10), and in the Epistle to the Hebrews (i. 2, 5, 8; iii. 6; iv. 14; v. 5; vi. 6; vii. 3, 28; x. 29), in the Petrine Epistles (1 Peter i. 3; 2 Peter i. 17), if not in the Acts of the Apostles (iii. 13 [?]; iv. 27 [?]; viii. 37 [?]); in the Johannine Epistles (1 John i. 3?7; ii. 22, 23, 24; iii. 8?23; iv. 9, 10?14, 15; v- 59 I0, 1t, 12, 13?20; 2 John iii. 9), and in the Apocalypse (Rev. iii. 18). The expression
Son of God has indeed been variously interpreted as pointing to a Sonship, either (1) physical, with special reference to His miraculous or supernatural birth (the Nazarenes, Socinus, Beyschlag); or (2) ethical, as marking the exceptional perfection of His moral…