PATRIPASSIAN
\pˌatɹɪpˈasi͡ən], \pˌatɹɪpˈasiən], \p_ˌa_t_ɹ_ɪ_p_ˈa_s_iə_n]\
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One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preexistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian.
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One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preexistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian.
By Noah Webster.
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p[=a]-tri-pas'i-an, n. a member of one of the earliest classes of anti-Trinitarian sectaries (2d century), who denied the distinction of three persons in one God, maintaining that the sufferings of the Son could be predicated of the Father. [L. pater, father, pati, passus, to suffer.]
By Thomas Davidson
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