{"id":34304,"date":"2016-12-24T11:20:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T15:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34304"},"modified":"2016-12-24T11:20:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T15:20:57","slug":"the-only-begotten-son-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/12\/the-only-begotten-son-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Begotten Son of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Virgin-and-Child.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34305 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Virgin-and-Child-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"virgin-and-child\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Virgin-and-Child-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Virgin-and-Child.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;What worthy return can we make for so great a condescension? The One Only-begotten God, ineffably born of God, entered the Virgin&#8217;s womb and grew and took the frame of poor humanity. He who upholds the universe, within whom and through whom are all things, was brought forth by common childbirth. He at whose voice archangels and angels tremble, and heaven and earth and all the elements of this world are melted, was heard in childish wailing. The Invisible and Incomprehensible, whom sight and feeling and touch cannot measure, was wrapped in a cradle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 St. Hilary of Poitiers, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (300-368 AD)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What worthy return can we make for so great a condescension? The One Only-begotten God, ineffably born of God, entered the Virgin&#8217;s womb and grew and took the frame of poor humanity. He who upholds the universe, within whom and through whom are all things, was brought forth by common childbirth. He at whose voice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/12\/the-only-begotten-son-of-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Only Begotten Son of God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1875,1805],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34306,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions\/34306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}