Thou my God, because Thou, O Father, in Him Who is the Beginning of our wisdom, Which is Thy Wisdom, born of Thyself, equal unto Thee and coeternal, that is, in Thy Son, createdst heaven and earth. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Felix Mendelssohn surely understood the subtleties of the Augsburg Confession (with its credo that "there is one Divine Essence which is called and which is God ... and yet there are three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are coeternal, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost") when he celebrated that document's anniversary in his "Reformation" Symphony, Opus 107, of 1830. ❋ Unknown (2009)
What the Vatican II Fathers said on this subject is readily understood, not as a patently absurd claim that Muslims believe God is three coeternal, coessential, and coequal Persons, but as a simple acknowledgement of those few matters of faith where Muslims agree with the Truth. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit have one divinity, equal glory, and coeternal majesty. ❋ Francis (2006)
Since God's power (posse) is coeternal with God himself, it is immutably the same. ❋ Holopainen, Toivo J. (2008)
If He emanated from God, is He coeternal and consubstantial with Him, or is He of a similar substance? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Most Muslims believed the Qur'an was uncreated and coeternal with Allah, but the Mutazili believed this contravened their central notion of the unity of God. ❋ Unknown (2001)
And therefore unto the Word coeternal with Thee Thou dost at once and eternally say all that Thou dost say; and whatever ❋ Unknown (1999)
For verily that heaven of heavens which Thou createdst in the Beginning, is some intellectual creature, which, although no ways coeternal unto Thee, the Trinity, yet partaketh of Thy eternity, and doth through the sweetness of that most happy contemplation of Thyself, strongly restrain its own changeableness; and without any fall since its first creation, cleaving close unto Thee, is placed beyond all the rolling vicissitude of times. ❋ Unknown (1999)
May they also be extended towards those things which are before; and understand Thee before all times, the eternal Creator of all times, and that no times be coeternal with Thee, nor any creature, even if there be any creature before all times. ❋ Unknown (1999)
These things considered, as much as Thou givest, O my God, as much as Thou stirrest me up to knock, and as much as Thou openest to me knocking, two things I find that Thou hast made, not within the compass of time, neither of which is coeternal with Thee. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Thy servant Moses to have spoken in the Spirit of truth; — of all these then, he taketh one, who saith, In the Beginning God made the heaven and the earth; that is, “in His Word coeternal with Himself, God made the intelligible and the sensible, or the spiritual and the corporeal creature.” ❋ Unknown (1999)
He another, that saith, In the Beginning God made heaven and earth; that is, “in His Word coeternal with Himself, did God make the formless matter of creatures spiritual and corporeal.” ❋ Unknown (1999)
“What then? do you deny this, that there is a certain sublime creature, with so chaste a love cleaving unto the true and truly eternal God, that although not coeternal with Him, yet is it not detached from Him, nor dissolved into the variety and vicissitude of times, but reposeth in the most true contemplation of Him only?” ❋ Unknown (1999)
He another, that saith, In the Beginning God created heaven and earth; that is, “in His Word coeternal with Himself, did God create the formless matter of the creature corporeal, wherein heaven and earth lay as yet confused, which, being now distinguished and formed, we at this day see in the bulk of this world.” ❋ Unknown (1999)
Nor yet is it coeternal with Thee, O God, because not without beginning; for it was made. ❋ Unknown (1999)
God, not coeternal indeed with God, yet after its measure, eternal in the heavens, when you seek for changes of times in vain, because you will not find them? ❋ Unknown (1999)
Their attempted solutions of the problem of evil are in most cases dualistic; evil is due either to the disturbing and pol - luting influence of a preexisting matter, coeternal with and not created by God, or to an evil soul, again a coeternal independent principle. ❋ A. HILARY ARMSTRONG (1968)
The soul is not created but coeternal with the world. ❋ MARTIN PINE (1968)
