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Jn 1:13c ... nor out of-a-will of-a-man, ...

The third phrase has these 4 narrator words ... oude ek thelēmatos andros (nor out of-a-will of-a-man, ...).

The 4 words are top down. The third type of excluded birth is the will of a man to adopt a man or child. Perhaps his wife was barren and he didn't have any heirs. The diagram shows the word "thelēmatos" (of a will) is virtually tangent to the sign of the man's will coming out of the sides of his head. The word "andros" (of a man) is tangent to the equilateral triangle holding the man's head. As you can see, a man can aquire his descendants by using his will to desire, think, and plan to arrange it, and from his mouth to issue the commands to achieve it. But his decendant is not "born" nor coming from the will of God.

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