Now as in Him the thing that coexists is identical with Him, and as in Him also that which desires, and that which is desirable play the part of hypostasis and subject, here once more appears the identity of desire and "being.
Gravitation of blood to the most dependent parts in cases of long illness distends the vessels, and post-mortem hypostasis leads to the passage of serum and coloring matter into the meshes of the mucous and submucous tissue.
His hypostasis consubstantial with the hypostasis of the Father and the Son?
The consequences of a hypostasis of the good are no less interesting than its causes.
After all, thehypostasis of the good is only an unfortunate incident in a great accomplishment, which is the discernment of the good.
The hypostasis of philosophical terms is an abuse incidental to the forthright, unchecked use of the intellect; it substitutes for things the limits and distinctions that divide them.
The hypostasis accomplished by Mr. Russell is more serious, and therefore more paradoxical.
This is simply verbal mythology or the hypostasis of words, and there would be some excuse for a rude person who should call it rubbish.
We may be invited to abstain from all hypostasis or hearty belief in anything, and to dwell only on the consciousness of imaginative activity in a vacuum--which is radical idealism.
It becomes the sign for an essence or idea, a logical hypostasis corresponding in discourse to that material hypostasis of perceptions which is called an external thing.
But this thing, fact, or external reality is, as we have seen, a completion and hypostasis of certain portions of experience, packed into such shapes as prove cogent in thought and practice.
The reality of all neo-Platonic hypostasis was thus dependent on revelation and on forgetting the meaning once conveyed by the terms so mysteriously transfigured into metaphysical beings.
This moral hypostasis involved in the love of fame could never be rationalised, but would subsist unmitigated or die out unobserved, were it not associated with other conceptions and other habits of estimating values.
This hypostasis of the rational, by which the rational abdicates its meaning in the effort to acquire a metaphysical existence, had already been carried to its extreme by the Neo-Platonists.
The hypostasis of moral conceptions, then, and of the idea of the good in particular, led up from the Platonic side to the doctrine of creation.
She obeyed, and I saw sadness visibly expressed on her features when she saw that her hypostasis was deferred till the arrival of Querilinthus, whom she would see with me at Marseilles in the spring of next year.
Christ, as distinct from Jesus, was not a merely impersonal power descending upon Jesus, but a preexisting hypostasis above the world-creating powers.
There were two divisions of the Ebionites: (a) The Nazarenes, who held to the supernatural birth of Christ, while they would not go to the length of admitting the preexisting hypostasis of the Son.
Arius thought to lay stress on the hypostasis of the Son, and to give it fixity and substance.
But, historically, the philosopher’s besetting sin of hypostasis has pushed the emphasis, in each of these two conceptions, to so vicious an extreme that they contrast with each other sharply.
It is surely a false hypostasis of terms whose distinction is merely abstract, to set over against each other in this way two aspects which are equally essential to any conception of the nature of consciousness.
Man, I never saw onything like her, The hypostasis o' her was jist perfection itsel'.
All previous representatives of the hypostasis of the Logos had understood his hypostatizing as happening in time for the purpose of the creation and the incarnation.
He strongly insisted upon the hypostasis of the Son and of the Spirit, and claimed for them divine worship.
Just like the Alogians, Praxeas and his adherents refused to admit the doctrine of the Logos into their Christology, and feared that it in connection with the doctrine of the hypostasis would give an advantage to Gnosticism.
Windisch actually uses these passages as evidence for the application to the apocalyptic Messiah and to the Pauline Christ of the attributes of the hypostasis Wisdom.
But was the pre-Christian Messiah ever identified with the hypostasis Wisdom?
We have to acknowledge the divine being that appeared in Christ to be the manifestation of the Deity; but, from God's standpoint, the Son is the hypostasis appointed by and subordinated to him.
In this we have a remnant of the more ancient idea and at the same time a concession to his opponents who admitted an eternal Logos in God, but not a pre-temporal hypostasis of the Son.
The Logos is the hypostasis of the operative power of reason, which at once preserves the unity and unchangeableness of God in spite of the exercise of the powers residing in him, and renders this very exercise possible.
Plotinus' idea ofhypostasis is also important, and this notion requires exact examination.
The apocryphal books of Ecclesiasticus and the Wisdom of Solomon exhibit Wisdom passing from the poetical personification of the Bible to the separate hypostasis of theology.
The confession of impotence, the abandonment of the programmatic intent is due to identification of the ideal with metaphysical fact, to the hypostasis of the ideal.
This involved, of course, its hypostasis as the metaphysical reality of supreme importance.
If any one shall not confess that the Word of God the Father is united according to hypostasis to flesh, and that with the flesh of His own He is one Christ, the same manifestly God and man at the same time; let him be anathema.
For neither soul nor body ever had an hypostasis of its own, besides thehypostasis of the Word: for there was always one hypostasis of the Word, and never two.
Whether the Person or hypostasis of Christ is composite after the Incarnation?
On account of the identity of nature and hypostasis in God, nature is sometimes put instead of person or hypostasis.
And hence, of the Man may be said what belongs to the Divine Nature, as of a hypostasis of the Divine Nature; and of God may be said what belongs to the human nature, as of a hypostasis of human nature.
And in this sense, granted that the Person or hypostasis in Christ are the same as the suppositum of God and Man, as was shown (Q.
But the being which belongs to the very hypostasis or person in itself cannot possibly be multiplied in one hypostasis or person, since it is impossible that there should not be one being for one thing.
On the contrary, others, considering only the subject of filiation, which is the person or hypostasis, put only one filiation in Christ, just as there is but one hypostasis or person.
For the human nature is taken to be in the terminus of assumption unto the Divine hypostasis when man is spoken of; and hence we can truly say that the Son of God, Who assumes human nature unto Himself, is man.
Whether After the Incarnation the Person orHypostasis of Christ Is Composite?
First, so that this is understood to be said by reason of another hypostasis or person, as if there was the person of the Word of God ruling and the person of the man serving; and this is the heresy of Nestorius.
Therefore in Christ there is anotherhypostasis besides the hypostasis of the Word of God; and hence the same conclusion follows as above.
Therefore there is anotherhypostasis in Him besides the hypostasis of the Word.
I answer that, The Person or hypostasis of Christ may be viewed in two ways.
In the Lord Jesus Christ we acknowledge two natures, but one hypostasis composed from both.
And the reason of this is that, since there is one hypostasis of both natures, the same hypostasis is signified by the name of either nature.
If, however, the personal property be mentally abstracted, the idea of the hypostasis no longer remains.
For hypostasissignifies something distinct in God, since hypostasis means an individual substance.
Hence, if the distinguishing property be removed from the person, the hypostasis no longer remains; whereas it would remain were the rationality of the nature removed; for both person and hypostasis are individual substances.
But what is composed of this matter and this form has the nature of hypostasis and person.
So, if paternity be removed, the hypostasis of the Father does not remain in God, as distinguished from the other persons, but only as distinguished from creatures; as the Jews understand it.
Therefore hypostasis and person add the individual principles to the idea of essence; nor are these identified with the essence in things composed of matter and form, as we said above when treating of divine simplicity (Q.
But subsistences are so called from subsisting, as substance or hypostasis is so called from substanding.
But person is something added to hypostasis; for person is "a hypostasis distinguished by a property of dignity.
Thence by some the definition of person is given as "hypostasis distinct by reason of dignity.
Hypostasis is a substantial act or habituation, vi.
Reason is a hypostasis after the nous, and Aphrodite gains an hypostasis in the Ousia.
Evil is here said to be a hypostasisin itself, and imparts evil qualities to other things.
So man, both soul and body, is brought into unity with the Logos; there being then one hypostasis for both natures.
The hypostasis through which this takes place is the personal Logos through whose union with this potential man, in the womb of Mary, the potential man acquires a concrete reality, an individual existence.
He has, therefore, no hypostasis of himself but only in and through the Logos.
