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Eternal Sonship

From: Christian Truth: Volume 33

By: John Nelson Darby

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Though what is called "The eternal Sonship" is a vital truth (or we lose the Father's sending the Son, and the Son's creating, and we have no Father if we have no Son, so that it lies at the basis of all truth), yet in the historical presentation of Christianity the Son is always presented as down here in servant and manhood estate, as all through John, though in heaven and one with the Father. "This"-this Person-"is My beloved Son"-He who was as man here, yet there. In Matt. 3 the whole Trinity is revealed, and we may say for the first time fully, "Wonderful grace it is!"

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