مَّا لَهُم بِهِ مِنْ عِلْمٍ وَلَا لِآبَائِهِمْ كَبُرَتْ كَلِمَةً تَخْرُجُ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ إِن يَقُولُونَ إِلَّا كَذِباً

5. Of that they have no knowledge (on which to base such an assertion), nor did their forefathers. Dreadful as a word is (that assertion) coming out of their mouths.² Indeed they speak nothing but falsehood.

2. The original word translated as forefathers means fathers, as well, and also implies the Fathers of the Church who established the Christian creeds. The usage of word in Dreadful as a word is (that assertion) coming out of their mouths, also implies this. Those Fathers did not base their claim that Jesus was the son of God on any knowledge, and their followers have tragically done nothing more than blindly imitating them. Their assertion is mere words uttered out of ignorance and myth-making.

As pointed out in note 1 above, the verses also reject the polytheists' assertion that God has taken angels for daughters.