The New Testament Recognizes Three Persons as God (5 of 26 notes)

Part Three
Theology Proper: 20 THE UNITY AND TRINITY OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

2) He is called “the only begotten God” (John 1:18). On this verse Vincent remarks: “Several of the principal manuscripts and a great mass of ancient evidence support the reading monogenes Theos, “God only begotten.’’¹ See also the marginal note to the same effect in the A.S.V., the R.S.V., and the N.E.B. Vincent further states: “Whether we read the only begotten Son, or God only begotten, the sense of the passage is not affected. The latter reading merely combines in one phrase the two attributes of the word already indicated – God (ver. 1), only begotten (ver. 14); the sense being one who was both God and only begotten.”

1             Marvin R. Vincent, Word Studies of the New Testament (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1914), II, p. 59.

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