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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.

2. (a.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.

Greek

3169. megaloprepes -- befitting a great one
... Adjective Transliteration: megaloprepes Phonetic Spelling: (meg-al-op-rep-ace')
Short Definition: magnificent, superb, transcendent Definition: magnificent ...
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Library

Third Tractate. The Knowing Hypostases and the Transcendent.
... THE KNOWING HYPOSTASES AND THE TRANSCENDENT. ... Similarly, this link which
is the Intellectual-Principle demands yet a Transcendent. ...
/.../plotinus/the six enneads/third tractate the knowing hypostases.htm

Out of this Transcendent Eternal Nature, which is as Universal and ...
... [Way-2-43] Out of this transcendent eternal nature, which is as universal
and immense as the Deity� Out of this transcendent eternal ...
/.../law/the way to divine knowledge/way-2-43 out of this transcendent.htm

As, Then, by the Higher Mystical Ascent from Matters that Concern ...
... IV."Apologetic Works. Chapter II. As, then, by the higher mystical ascent
from matters that concern ourselves to that transcendent� ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter ii as then by.htm

Concerning "Holy of Holies," "King of Kings," "Lord of Lords ...
... 3. These titles, then, must be given in an absolute sense to the All-Transcendent
Cause, and we must add that It is a Transcendent Holiness and Dominion, that ...
/.../rolt/dionysius the areopagite/chapter xii concerning holy of.htm

Concerning "Perfect" and "One. "
... the title of "One"; and there is One God Who is the Father and One Lord Jesus Christ
and One unchanging Spirit, through the transcendent indivisibility of the ...
/.../rolt/dionysius the areopagite/chapter xiii concerning perfect and.htm

Concerning "Peace" and what is Meant by "Very Being" Itself, "Very ...
... grasp), [470] and as to the manner in which It is still and silent and keeps in
Itself and within Itself and is wholly and entirely one transcendent Unity in ...
/.../rolt/dionysius the areopagite/chapter xi concerning peace and.htm

Concerning "Great," "Small," "Same," "Different," "Like," "Unlike ...
... [441] And the excess of Greatness reaches to this pitch through the Absolute
Transcendent outpouring of the Incomprehensible Grandeur. ...
/.../rolt/dionysius the areopagite/chapter ix concerning great small.htm

Concerning "Wisdom," "Mind," "Reason," "Truth," "Faith. "
... intellectual nature. [401] This transcendent sense, therefore, must be given
to our language about God, and not our human sense. We must ...
/.../rolt/dionysius the areopagite/chapter vii concerning wisdom mind.htm

Letter i. My Dear Friend, I Employed the Compelled and Most ...
... I. The Absolute; the innominable [Greek text which cannot be reproduced] et Causa
Sui, in whose transcendent I AM, as the Ground, IS whatever VERILY is:- the ...
/.../coleridge/confessions of an inquiring spirit etc/letter i my dear friend.htm

The Old Testament is Good: the New Testament is Better.
... But the Gospel possesses something transcendent [above the former dispensation],
viz., the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ, His passion and resurrection. ...
/.../chapter ix the old testament is.htm

Thesaurus

Transcendent (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as,
transcendent worth; transcendent valor. ...Transcendent (3 Occurrences). ...
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Omnipresence
... of the monotheistic conception of God as the Infinite Creator, Preserver and Governor
of the universe, immanent in His works as well as transcendent above them ...
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Anthropomorphism
... less in the humanizing of the gods than in the claim that "men are mortal gods,"
the idea being, as Aristotle said, that men become gods by transcendent merit. ...
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Authority (326 Occurrences)
... If He is immanent as well as transcendent, He speaks directly to men, and has no
need of intermediaries. Pantheism results in a naturalistic theory of truth. ...
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Mediation
... ultimate nature of God and of the world conceived as essentially opposed to each
other, then mediation will be the mode by which the transcendent God, without ...
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Consist (7 Occurrences)
... Let him note that this transcendent estimate comes to us conveyed in the vehicle
not of poetry and rhetoric, but of a treatise pregnant with masterly argument ...
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Mediator (7 Occurrences)
... ultimate nature of God and of the world conceived as essentially opposed to each
other, then mediation will be the mode by which the transcendent God, without ...
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Johannine
... Gnostic dualism had set God infinitely far from men as transcendent Being; John
brings God infinitely near to men as Love; and sweeps away the whole ...
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Romans (8 Occurrences)
... Let him note that this transcendent estimate comes to us conveyed in the vehicle
not of poetry and rhetoric, but of a treatise pregnant with masterly argument ...
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Incomparable (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Not comparable; without a peer or equal;
matchless; peerless; transcendent. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Bible Concordance

Transcendent (3 Occurrences)

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
(See RSV)

Ephesians 1:19 and what the transcendent greatness of His power in us believers as seen in the working of His infinite might
(WEY)

Ephesians 2:7 in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His grace.
(WEY)

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