[Footnote 430: To Justin the name of the Son is the most important; see also Athenag. 10. The Logos had indeed been already called the Son of God by Philo, and Celsus expressly says (Orig., c. Cels. II. 31); "If according to your doctrine the Word is really the Son of God then we agree with you;" but the Apologists are the first to attach the name of Son to the Logos as a proper designation. If, however, the Logos is intrinsically the Son of God, then Christ is the Son of God, not because he is the begotten of God in the flesh (early Christian), but because the spiritual being existing in him is the antemundane reproduction of God (see Justin, Apol. II. 6: [Greek: ho huios tou patros kai Theou, ho monos legomenos kurios huios])--a momentous expression.] [Footnote 431: Athenag., 10; Tatian, Orat. 5.] [Footnote 432: The clearest expression of this is in Tatian 5, which passage is also to be compared with the following: [Greek: Theos en en arche, ten de archen logou dunamin pareilephamen. Ho gar despotes ton holon, autos huparchon tou pantos he hupostasis, kata men ten medepo gegenemenen poiesin monos en, katho de pasa dunamis, horaton te kai aoraton autos hupostasis en, sun auto ta panta sun auto dia logikes dunameos autos kai ho logos, hos en auto, hupestese. Thelemati de tes aplotetos autou propeda logos, ho de logos, ou kata kenou choresas, ergon prototokon tou patros ginetai. Touton ismen tou kosmou ten archen. Gegone de kata merismon, ou kata apokopen to gar apotmethen tou protou kechoristai, to de meriothen oikonomas ten hairesin proslabon ouk endea ton hothen eileptai pepoieken. Osper gar aro mias dados anaptetai men pura polla, tes de protes dados dia ten exapsin ton pollon dadon ouk elattoutai to phos, houto kai ho logos proelthon ek tes tou patros dunameos ouk alogon pepoieke ton gegennekota]. In the identification of the divine consciousness, that is, the power of God, with the force to which the world is due the naturalistic basis of the apologetic speculations is most clearly shown. Cf. Justin, Dial. 128, 129.] [Footnote 433: The word "beget" ([Greek: gennan]) is used by the Apologists, especially Justin, because the name "Son" was the recognised expression for the Logos. No doubt the words [Greek: exereugesthai, proballesthai, proerchesthai, propedan] and the like express the physical process more exactly in the sense of the Apologists. On the other hand, however, [Greek: gennan] appears the more appropriate word in so far as the relation of the essence of the Logos to the essence of God is most clearly shown by the name "Son."]