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#### Larger Catechism
<span class="q">Q 10.</span> What are the personal properties of the three persons in the Godhead?
<span class="q">A.</span> It is proper to the Father to beget the Son,[^fnref:wlc1] and to the Son to be begotten of the Father,[^fnref:wlc2] and to the Holy Ghost to proceed from the Father and the Son from all eternity.[^fnref:wlc3]
[^fnref:wlc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Hebrews 1:5-6</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p58001005.01-1">For to which of the angels did God ever say,</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p58001005.11-1">“You are my Son,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>today I have begotten you”?</p> </div> <p class="same-paragraph" id="p58001005.20-1">Or again,</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p58001005.22-1">“I will be to him a father,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and he shall be to me a son”?</p> </div> <p class="same-paragraph" id="p58001006.01-1">And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p58001006.13-1">“Let all God's angels worship him.”</p> </div> </div><h5>Hebrews 1:8</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p class="same-paragraph" id="p58001008.01-2">But of the Son he says,</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p58001008.07-2">“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc2]: <div class="esv"><h5>John 1:14</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p43001014.01-1">And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.</p> </div><h5>John 1:18</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p43001018.01-2">No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc3]: <div class="esv"><h5>John 15:26</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p43015026.01-1"><span class="woc">“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.</span></p> </div><h5>Galatians 4:6</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p48004006.01-2">And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>