apotelesma

apotelesma noun: the end result or fulfilment, especially concerning the hypostatic union of Christ's divine and human natures.

Noun

apotelesma (plural apotelesmata)

The end result or fulfilment, especially concerning the hypostatic union of Christ's divine and human natures.
- It is further to be observed, that although both the Natures in Christ remaine distinct […] both Natures doe that which is proper vnto them, but with Communion of each with other. This Communion is the concurrence of both Natures in the same Person by their severall proper actions, to the producing...1633, John Downe, Certaine treatises of the late reverend and learned divine, Mr Iohn Downe, page 60
- Satisfaction is […] looked on as a real act or operation of one or the other nature in Christ, when it is the apotelesma or effect of the actings, the doing and suffering of Christ – the dignity of what he did in reference unto the end for which he did it. For the two natures are so united in...1669, John Owen, “On the Satisfaction of Christ”, in A Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity

கோள் ஆட்சி

This Communion is the concurrence of both Natures in the same Person by their severall proper actions, to the producing of one Apotelesma or outward effect pertaining to our Salvation.1633, John Downe, Certaine treatises of the late reverend and learned divine, Mr Iohn Downe, page 60:
[25][…]Holl. (728) further enumerates the apotelesmata of Christ, as of a twofold order.1876, Heinrich Schmid, translated by Charles A. Hay and Henry E. Jacobs, The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, page...
Leontius of Byzantium calls the result of this retrospective reconstruction – from the trinitarian Son through the creation of human physis to the enhypostasis – an apotelesma.2021, Mohr Siebeck, The Perspective of Resurrection: A Trinitarian Christology, page 106:

plural	apotelesmata

See apotelesmatic.

What does apotelesma mean?: Apotelesma means the end result or fulfilment, especially concerning the hypostatic union of Christ's divine and human natures.
What is apotelesma in Tamil?: Apotelesma in Tamil is கோள் ஆட்சி. See Apotelesma meaning in Tamil.
How do you use apotelesma in a sentence?: This Communion is the concurrence of both Natures in the same Person by their severall proper actions, to the producing of one Apotelesma or outward effect pertaining to our Salvation.
What part of speech is apotelesma?: Apotelesma is a noun.
What is the plural of apotelesma?: The plural of apotelesma is apotelesmata.

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