three in substance

Steven Avery

Administrator
[Creed of Antioch 341]
SO THAT THEY ARE THREE IN SUBSTANCE AND ONE IN CONSENT

Hilary of Poitiers
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3301.htm
. Consequently they declared there were three substances, meaning three subsistent Persons, and not thereby introducing any dissimilarity of essence to separate the substance of Father and Son. For the words to teach us that they are three in substance, but in agreement one, are free from objection, because as the Spirit is also named, and He is the Paraclete, it is more fitting that a unity of agreement should be asserted than a unity of essence based on likeness of substance.

William Sherlock
https://books.google.com/books?id=ixeXKoGGaD0C&pg=PA379

: He ex∣pounds▪ Three Hypostases to the very same Sense; and else∣where quotes that passage of St. Hilary concerning the Synod at Antioch,* as truly Catholick, where in opposition to the Sabellians, they assert the Divine Persons in the Trinity, to be tria in substantia, or tres substantias, three in Substance, or three Substances.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/te...01.001:4;seq=11;vid=62123;page=root;view=text

In the second century, Tertullian, a monotheist who believed God was one in essence but three in substance coined the phrase Trinity which means tri-unity or three-in-oneness 10
10 Bustenitz, “Did Constantine Invent the Trinity?: The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Writings of the Early Church Fathers,” 217.
https://www.academia.edu/22945378/CHHI_510_THE_TRINITY_This_is_the_one

Augustine writes “three
substances, one substance” “...tres substantiase sunt sed una substantia” and Victorinus writes
“substanita unum, subsistenita tria sunt ista” or “three are one in substance, three in substance.”
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...ds/ht24wj92f&usg=AOvVaw22ivPBmRW7keBWqYcmRG1n

Hilary says that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three in substance, one in harmony.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Be72DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT2553
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