In a brief statement, I shall say that essence ( ousia ) is related to person ( hypostasis ) as the general to the particular.
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The Bible does not explicitly use the term in relation to the Holy Spirit nor explicitly mentions the Son having a distinct hypostasis from the Father.
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For Buddhists, the correct depiction of the Buddha is not an hypostasis : an actual spiritual emanation of the Buddha, which possesses supernatural qualities.
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In scripture as well as in later tradition, Bushyasta ( Middle Persian " Bushasp " ) is the hypostasis of laziness and idleness.
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Apollinaris described the union of the divine and human in Christ as being of a single nature and having a single essence a single hypostasis.
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The teaching of all churches that accept the Council of Ephesus is that in the Incarnate Christ is a single hypostasis, God and man at once.
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In Eastern Orthodoxy, theology starts with the Father hypostasis, not the essence of God, since the Father is the God of the Old Testament.
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This Ecumenical council declared that Jesus Christ was a distinct being of God in existence or reality ( hypostasis ), which the Latin fathers translated as persona.
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The Greek term " hypostasis " had come into use as a technical term prior to the Christological debates of the late fourth and fifth centuries.
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In the period in which Babai and others formulated their respective Christological models, words such as " hypostasis " and " ousion " had less specifically fixed definitions.
