Paragraph 5
“Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten.”
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Stephen reflects on his own conception by his parents and contrasts ordinary human generation with Christ's divine origin. He wonders whether God, having willed his existence, can ever undo it. His thoughts then turn to complex Christian doctrines about the
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