Filiation
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.
(2): ( n.) One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot; as, the filiations are from a common stock.
(3): ( n.) Descent from, or as if from, a parent; relationship like that of a son; as, to determine the filiation of a language.
(4): ( n.) The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(OF SON OF GOD). The state of, relationship' in which the Second Person .of the Godhead stands to the First, as the Son of the Father. (See Christology); (See Father); (See Son Of God); (See Sonship); (See Trinity).
