Meaning of supereternal | Babel Free

Definitions

Properly everlasting or eternal; being in a state whose total existence is wholly unaffected by and independent of time itself.

not-comparable, rare

Examples

“The Absolute is above eternity; it is infinitude. Hence there must be a mediating something between the supereternal and the subeternal.”

“Nay, even although the world had no beginning, it would not be coeternal with God. For, God is supereternal (superaeternitas); the pure intelligences, including the intellectus agens, are eternal; the heavenly bodies had a beginning, but will have no end; terrestrial substances alone exist in time.”

“He is the primeval, the eternal, some say the supereternal, and all creatures are merely temporal and passing.”

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