单词 | first person of the trinity |
释义 | > as lemmasFirst Person of the Trinity 1. Theology. Also with capital initials. God the Father, as one of the three modes of being of the Godhead which together constitute the Trinity. Cf. person n. 6a. In later use chiefly First Person of the Trinity. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Father > [noun] fatherOE fatherheada1425 first person?a1450 omniparent1609 ?a1450 (?c1400) Lay Folks' Catech. (Lamb.) (1901) 15 (MED) Fyrst þey trow in þe Fadyr, for he ys fyrst persone. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 5 The first personne in godheid is the father cœlestiall. 1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 86 It was more congruent for the word, the second person to be incarnate..then the first person..or the third. 1712 S. Clarke Script. Doctr. of Trinity ii. 243 The Father (or First Person) Alone is Self-existent, Underived, Unoriginated, Independent. 1829 Hopkinsian Mag. June 419 The writer takes for granted, that by the word Father here, Christ means the first person in the Trinity; to the exclusion of the second and third. 1851 Internat. Mag. 1 Feb. 294/2 The painting in the arch at the back, representing the first person of the Trinity, supporting the crucified Saviour, angels at each side censing, and others bearing shields. 1929 PMLA 44 136 The poet had fallen into the heresy of holding the Third greater than the First Person of the Trinity. 1999 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 18 June 5 c The conference is in keeping with Pope John Paul's call to the world's Catholics to prepare for the millennium by meditating this year on the First Person of the Trinity, God the Father. < as lemmas |
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