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  • The word "phenomenon" ” from the Greek word phainesthai, "to appear," and related to another Greek word that is the root of the English word "fantasy" ” possesses a unique potency in our culture.

    The Phenomenon Tomasky, Michael 2006

  • Christ; because such may be said to be redeemed kata tēn doxan, not kata tēn alētheian, — kata to phainesthai, not kata to heinai, — in respect of appearance, not reality, as is the use of the Scripture in divers other things.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • * 'Alla men aphairoumenou mekous kai platous kai bathous, ouden horomen hupoleipomenon plen e& 176; ti esti to horizomenon hupo touton, hoste ten hulen ananke phainesthai monen ousian houto skopoumenois.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • *;; Oromen de ten kinesin hoti dunatai diakrinein ton a& 153; ra kai ekpuroun hoste kai ta pheromena tekomena phainesthai pollakis.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • 'Alla men aphairoumenou mekous kai platous kai bathous, ouden horomen hupoleipomenon plen e& 176; ti esti to horizomenon hupo touton, hoste ten hulen ananke phainesthai monen ousian houto skopoumenois.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • ;; Oromen de ten kinesin hoti dunatai diakrinein ton a& 153; ra kai ekpuroun hoste kai ta pheromena tekomena phainesthai pollakis.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Being is not simply "phainesthai, the temporal shining-forth of beings," if that were mistaken to mean that Being is merely a flow of surface appearances; for the strife of Being essentially involves the "negativity" of concealment and withdrawal -- which also indicates its depth dimension.

    enowning enowning 2010

  • Appendix at the end of this work.] [Footnote 448: [Greek: Hôste ta hyper tês kephalês astra megalên echein tên metabolên, kai mê tauta phainesthai pros arkton te kai mesêmbrian metabainousin; enioi gar en Aigyptô men asteres horôntai, kai peri Kypron; en tois pros arkton de chôrious ouch horôntai kai ta dia pantos en tois pros arkton phainomena tôn astrôn, en ekeinois tois topois poieitai dysin.

    The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871

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