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(Washington, D. C.: Review and Herald,
1982), pp. 56-93.
3. The dates for the reign of Artaxerxes have
been firmly established by the Olympiad
dates, the Ptolemy's Canon, the Elephantine
Papyri, and the Babylonian Cuneiform tablets.
4. See also C. Mervyn Maxwell, God Cares
(Mountain View, CA.: Pacific Press, 1981),
vol. l, pp. 216-218.
5. Gleason L. Archer, Encyclopedia of Bible
Difficulties (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan,
1982), p. 291.
6. White, The Desire of Ages (Mountain View,
CA: Pacific Press, 1940), p. 530.
7. That Scripture alludes to Jesus as the "only
begotten" and the "first born" and speaks of
the day of His begetting does not deny His
divine nature and eternal existence. The term
"only begotten" (John 1:14; 1:18; 3:16; 1 John
4:9) comes from the Greek word monogenes.
The Biblical use of monogenes reveals that its
range of meaning extends to "only" or
"unique," depicting a special relationship, not
an event in time. Isaac, for example is called
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