Definition of "unbegotten" [unbegotten]

• Not yet begotten; as yet unborn. (adjective)
• Self-existent; eternal. (adjective)

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• "His Father's properties, then the term unbegotten can no longer be predicated exclusively of the Father, the existence of the"
• "The word unbegotten is predicated of that which has origin of itself, and no cause of its being: the word eternal is predicated of that which is in being beyond all time and age."
• "[370] So Dorner, [371] who freely uses the latter portion of the treatise, "The main point of Basil's opposition to Eunomius is that the word unbegotten is not a name indicative of the essence of God, but only of a condition of existence."