Meanings
- not comparableexisting or living afterward
But the full meaning of this manifestation was revealed only when the postexistent Christ came to live in his followers.
1972, W. Nicol, The Sēmeia in the fourth gospel: Tradition and redaction, page 1371 more example
For as for that conceit of Anaxagoras, of pre and post-existent atoms, endued with all those several forms and qualities of bodies ingenerably and incorruptibly, it was nothing but an adulteration of the genuine Atomical philosophy […]
1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC
Origin
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