For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
And not men promiscuously; thus exhibiting to us those who were the children of men truly so called, choice men, apostles. "For "says he, "I have begotten you through the gospel; ".
Grant, now, that Abraham is our father; grant, too, that Paul is. "In the Gospel "says he, "I have begotten you."