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  1. coeternal love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Equally or jointly eternal.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Existing with another from eternity.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. jointly or equally eternal

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Equally eternal.

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  • “Thou my God, because Thou, O Father, in Him Who is the Beginning of our wisdom, Which is Thy Wisdom, born of Thyself, equal unto Thee and coeternal, that is, in Thy Son, createdst heaven and earth.”

    The Confessions

  • “What the Vatican II Fathers said on this subject is readily understood, not as a patently absurd claim that Muslims believe God is three coeternal, coessential, and coequal Persons, but as a simple acknowledgement of those few matters of faith where Muslims agree with the Truth.”

    Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks

  • “Felix Mendelssohn surely understood the subtleties of the Augsburg Confession (with its credo that "there is one Divine Essence which is called and which is God ... and yet there are three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are coeternal, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost") when he celebrated that document's anniversary in his "Reformation" Symphony, Opus 107, of 1830.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Mendelssohn Really Was a Lutheran

  • “But the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit have one divinity, equal glory, and coeternal majesty.”

    Archive 2006-01-01

  • “Since God's power (posse) is coeternal with God himself, it is immutably the same.”

    Peter Damian

  • “If He emanated from God, is He coeternal and consubstantial with Him, or is He of a similar substance?”

    A Philosophical Dictionary

  • “Most Muslims believed the Qur'an was uncreated and coeternal with Allah, but the Mu’tazili believed this contravened their central notion of the unity of God.”

    803

  • “May they also be extended towards those things which are before; and understand Thee before all times, the eternal Creator of all times, and that no times be coeternal with Thee, nor any creature, even if there be any creature before all times.”

    The Confessions

  • “These things considered, as much as Thou givest, O my God, as much as Thou stirrest me up to knock, and as much as Thou openest to me knocking, two things I find that Thou hast made, not within the compass of time, neither of which is coeternal with Thee.”

    The Confessions

  • “Thy servant Moses to have spoken in the Spirit of truth; — of all these then, he taketh one, who saith, In the Beginning God made the heaven and the earth; that is, “in His Word coeternal with Himself, God made the intelligible and the sensible, or the spiritual and the corporeal creature.””

    The Confessions

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