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For example, that which we term ousia is by some called esia, and by others again osia.

The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

In the same manner, in the matter in question, the term ousia is common, like goodness, or Godhead, or any similar attribute; while hypostasis is contemplated in the special property of Fatherhood, Sonship, or the power to sanctify.

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

For example, that which we term ousia is by some called esia, and by others again osia.

Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

They had been driven to condemn in succession the accurate homoousion and the harmless homoiousion, and even the word ousia, or substance.

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

The non-identity of hypostasis and ousia is, I take it, suggested even by our western brethren, where, from a suspicion of the inadequacy of their own language, they have given the word ousia in the Greek, to the end that any possible difference of meaning might be preserved in the clear and unconfounded distinction of terms.

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

Heracleitus; -- the doctrine of the flux is contained in the word ousia (= osia the pushing principle), an anticipation of Anaxagoras is found in psuche and selene.

Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

However, not only is homos ambiguous; the word ousia itself was often taken as equivalent to hypostasis (person), as apparently is the case in the anathema attached to the Nicene Symbol.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Jesus Christ, generated from Him before the ages, "recommended the disuse of the terms ousia (essence or substance), homoousion

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Indeed, if the Greek term being translated as 'being' in GNB were ousia, which is sometimes translated as 'being', then the homoousios can be taken as logically entailing that God is being.

Archive 2007-05-01 Mike L 2007

Indeed, if the Greek term being translated as 'being' in GNB were ousia, which is sometimes translated as 'being', then the homoousios can be taken as logically entailing that God is being.

Not talking about God Mike L 2007