John 1:18
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
18 No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
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John 1:18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
18 No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God,[a] who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him.(A)
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- 1:18 The only Son, God: while the vast majority of later textual witnesses have another reading, “the Son, the only one” or “the only Son,” the translation above follows the best and earliest manuscripts, monogenēs theos, but takes the first term to mean not just “Only One” but to include a filial relationship with the Father, as at Lk 9:38 (“only child”) or Hb 11:17 (“only son”) and as translated at Jn 1:14. The Logos is thus “only Son” and God but not Father/God.
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