Query XXVI. p. 412.
The words
he construes thus: "not as eternally generated," as if he had read
, supplying
by imagination. The sense and meaning of the word
, signifying made, or created, is so fixed and certain in this author, &c.
This is but one of fifty instances in which the true Englishing of
&c. would have prevented all mistake. It is not
made
, but
became
. Thus here:—begotten eternally, and not as one that became; that is, as not having been before. The only-begotten Son never