Of the Hypostasesthat Mediate Knowledge, and of the Superior Principle.
Hypostases that transmit knowledge (see the new title), v.
The difficulty of the party of Paulinus in recognizing the orthodoxy of the Meletians was their practice of speaking of the three hypostases or subsistences, which was condemned by the words of the Nicene definition.
Wherefore, we have here plainly an Egyptian Trinity of divine hypostases subordinate, Eicton, Emeph or Cneph, and Phtha.
The three sublime hypostases of the true Trinity were degraded into three attributes; in physical causes the sacred mysteries of religion were attempted to be explained away; its doctrines were corrupted, and its emblems perverted.
Supreme Deity, acknowledged a Trinity of divine hypostasessuperior to them all.
Therefore, since genera and species are not hypostases or persons, these are not the same as subsistences.
Therefore the hypostases cannot be distinguished by relations.
Hence he says that the hypostases do not differ from each other in substance, but according to determinate properties.
It is therefore better to say that the persons or hypostases are distinguished rather by relations than by origin.
Whether mental abstraction of the relations from the persons leaves the hypostases distinct?
Whether the Hypostases Remain If the Relations Are Mentally Abstracted from the Persons?
Objection 1: It would seem that the hypostases remain if the properties or relations are mentally abstracted from the persons.
But according to those who suppose two persons or two hypostases or two supposita in Christ, no reason prevents Christ being called the adopted Son of God.
But according to such as hold that there are twohypostases or two supposita in Christ, it may fittingly and properly be said that the Son of God assumed a man.
But if it be said that there are several persons or hypostases in Christ, it would follow that there would be, absolutely speaking, several adorations.
But both of these opinions fall into the heresy of Nestorius; the first, indeed, because to maintain two hypostases or supposita in Christ is the same as to maintain two persons, as was shown above (A.
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