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from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to subsistence; especially, in theology, pertaining to the divine subsistence or essence.
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God is also Holy Spirit, being sanctifying power, subsistential, proceeding from the Father without separation, and resting in the Son, identical in essence with Father and Son.
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N.B. The distinctities in the 'pleroma' are the eternal ideas, the subsistential truths; each considered in itself, an infinite in the form of the finite; but all considered as one with the unity, the eternal
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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And just as we say that fire has brightness [1539] through the light proceeding from it, and do not consider the light of the fire as an instrument ministering to the fire, but rather as its natural force: so we say that the Father creates all that He creates through His Only-begotten Son, not as though the Son were a mere instrument serving [1540] the Father's ends, but as His natural and subsistential force [1541].
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