JOHN, 1st, 5:1, C. H. Cayce “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.” The word here translated is born is gegennatai, and may be translated begotten or born; but this word is in the perfect tense and the passive voice. As it is in the passive voice the person is passive in being born again, or in this birth. As it is in the perfect tense, it denotes a work that had already been completed. The following is, therefore, a literal translation of this text: “Everyone that believes that Jesus is the Christ, has been born of God.” The believer, then, has already been born of God. The Primitive Baptist, May 14, 1912.