with you;" but the Apologists are the first to attach the name of
Son to the Logos as a proper designation. If, however, the Logos is
intrinsically the Son of God, then Christ is the Son of God, not because
he is the begotten of God in the flesh (early Christian), but because
the spiritual being existing in him is the antemundane reproduction of
God (see Justin, Apol. II. 6: [Greek: ho huios tou patros kai Theou, ho
monos legomenos kurios huios])--a momentous expression.]

[Footnote 431: Athenag., 10; Tatian, Orat. 5.]

[Footnote 432: The clearest expression of this is in Tatian 5, which
passage is also to be compared with the following: [Greek: Theos en en
arche, ten de archen logou dunamin pareilephamen. Ho gar despotes ton
holon, autos huparchon tou pantos he hupostasis, kata men ten medepo
gegenemenen poiesin monos en, katho de pasa dunamis, horaton te kai
aoraton autos hupostasis en, sun auto ta panta sun auto dia logikes
dunameos autos kai ho logos, hos en auto, hupestese. Thelemati de tes
aplotetos autou propeda logos, ho de logos, ou kata kenou choresas,
ergon prototokon tou patros ginetai. Touton ismen tou kosmou ten archen.
Gegone de kata merismon, ou kata apokopen to gar apotmethen tou protou
kechoristai, to de meriothen oikonomas ten hairesin proslabon ouk endea
ton hothen eileptai pepoieken. Osper gar aro mias dados anaptetai men
pura polla, tes de protes dados dia ten exapsin ton pollon dadon ouk
elattoutai to phos, houto kai ho logos proelthon ek tes tou patros
dunameos ouk alogon pepoieke ton gegennekota]. In the identification of
the divine consciousness, that is, the power of God, with the force to
which the world is due the naturalistic basis of the apologetic
speculations is most clearly shown. Cf. Justin, Dial. 128, 129.]

[Footnote 433: The word "beget" ([Greek: gennan]) is used by the
Apologists, especially Justin, because the name "Son" was the recognised
expression for the Logos. No doubt the words [Greek: exereugesthai,
proballesthai, proerchesthai, propedan] and the like express the
physical process more exactly in the sense of the Apologists. On the
other hand, however, [Greek: gennan] appears the more appropriate word
in so far as the relation of the essence of the Logos to the essence of
God is most clearly shown by the name "Son."]

[Footnote 434: None of the Apologists has precisely defined the Logos
idea. Zahn, l.c., p. 233, correctly remarks: "Whilst the distinction
drawn between th