In
1 Tim. vi.
13, St. Paul writes
τοῦ
θεοῦ τοῦ
ζωοποιοῦντος
πάντα. In the text St.
Basil writes τὰ
πάντα
ζωογονοῦντος.
The latter word is properly distinguished from the former as
meaning not to make alive after death, but to engender
alive. In Luke
xvii. 33, it is
rendered in A.V. “preserve.” In Acts vii. 19, it is “to the end
they might not live.” On the meaning of
ζωογονεῖν
in the lxx. and the Socinian arguments based on its use in
Luke xvii.
33, cf.
Pearson, On the Creed, Art. V. note to p. 257 Ed.
1676.