beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” The expression “only begotten” is clearly, as I trust we all understand, a title of deity. In the opening verse of the chapter we read, “In the beginning was the Word.” When everything that ever had beginning began—the Word was. Not “the Word became” but the Word was. “In the beginning was the Word”—there you have eternity of being; “and the word was with God”—there you have personality; “and the word was