Chapter

 1 Int|        17) turns upon the words “first-born son” (9, 10), which, Jerome
 2 11 |        and she brought forth her first-born son.” From this he endeavours
 3 11 | endeavours to show that the term first-born is inapplicable except to
 4 12 |     Every only begotten son is a first-born son, but not every first-born
 5 12 |    first-born son, but not every first-born is an only begotten. By
 6 12 |          is an only begotten. By first-born we understand not only one
 7 12 |          The word of God defines first-born as everything that openeth
 8 12 |        it should prove to be the first-born but not merely the only
 9 12 |          Why do you speak of the first-born, when I cannot tell whether
10 12 |         one I previously had the first-born. Will not the very points
11 12 |          folly, and declare that first-born is a title of him who opens
12 12 |        know if he was not also a first-born son, and whether he was
13 12 |          law relates only to the first-born, and there can be no first-born
14 12 |  first-born, and there can be no first-born unless there are successors,
15 12 |          bound by the law of the first-born who cannot tell whether
16 12 |          bound by the law of the first-born, we gather that he is called
17 12 |     gather that he is called the first-born who opens the womb and who
18 12 |      that the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from
19 12 |          land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his
20 12 |       sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was
21 12 |         the dungeon: And all the first-born of cattle.” Tell me, were
22 12 |         the destroyer, only your first-born, or, something more, did
23 12 |         have brothers are called first-born, the only begotten were
24 12 |   begotten to die as well as the first-born. You must either release
25 12 |    begotten sons also are called first-born.~
26 13 |      show when he treated of the first-born, that brethren of the Lord