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n. - (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality; Any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united; The accumulation of blood in an organ;

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  • I wonder if Logos and Wisdom are more on the divine side of the ledger and if we can use the word hypostasis?
  • On the other hand their word hypostasis, from hypo-histemi, was taken to correspond to the Latin substantia, from sub-stare.
  • It is urged by Bethune-Baker that Nestorius and his friends took the word hypostasis in the sense of nature, and by Lebon that the
  • A hypostasis is a singular essence (ousia) subsisting in its independent being, numerically one, separate from others by its accidents.
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