relationship as the Son of God, 1:18, 3:16, 18, 1 John 4:9, though it is put into the mouth of Christ Himself in 3:16, 18. Comp. the Pauline πρωτοτόκος, Col. 1:15, Heb. 1:6, which as to the thing certainly corresponds with the Johannean μονογενής, but presents the idea in the relation of time to the creation, and in Rom. 8:29 to Christendom. Μονογ. designates the Logos as the only Son (Luke 7:12, 8:42, 9:38; Heb. 11:17; Tob. 8:17; Herod, vii. 221; Plato, Legg. III. p. 691 D; Aesch. Ag. 898; Hes.