Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fullness; abundance; plenitude: in gnosticism, the spiritual world, or world of light, including the body of eons.
- noun In botany, same as
plerome .
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- noun A state of perfect
fullness , especially of God's being. - noun Gnosticism The
spiritual universe seen in terms of the full totality of the powers and essence of God.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most probably St. Paul's use of the terms pleroma, the æon of this world, the archon of the power of the air, in Ephesians and Colossians, was suggested by the abuse of these terms by the Gnostics.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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In favour, however, of the former view is the ordinary meaning of the word pleroma, the meaning of the phrase fulness of God, in other passages, the analogy of Scripture as exhibited in the parallel passages above quoted, and the simplicity of the interpretation, no paraphrase being necessary to bring out the sense.
A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860
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The word pleroma (πλήρωμα), in the New Testament, means that which fills up; fulness, fulfilling, filling full.
Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849
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Among other expressions he salutes the Church of the Trallians 'in the _pleroma_' -- an expression which could not escape the taint of heresy when once Valentinus had promulgated his system, of which the pleroma was the centre.
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858
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It is a "pleroma" in social life, a fulness of concord, a harmony of many parts.
Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849
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N.B. The distinctities in the 'pleroma' are the eternal ideas, the subsistential truths; each considered in itself, an infinite in the form of the finite; but all considered as one with the unity, the eternal
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Now that the body of our Lord was not transelemented or transnatured by the 'pleroma' indwelling, we are positively assured by Scripture.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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If he find a dearth in this, if it seem to him a circumscription, he does not know Christ, as the 'pleroma', the fullness.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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The word "pleroma" translated here as "fullness", has two meanings in Greek: one, an active meaning, describes something that "fills" or "completes"; for exam - ple, a ship's full load can be referred to as its pleroma.
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But actually the god is an evil demiurge and I was sent from the pleroma to defeat him.
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hernesheir commented on the word pleroma
(n). The totality of what is considered to be devine.
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September 10, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word pleroma
Sounds useful!
September 10, 2009
ValentineBonnaire commented on the word pleroma
In the visual for this word you are showing a Princess Flower? The pleroma is a concept like the music of the spheres is a concept? You might find illustrations from old illustrations of alchemy about the concept of pleroma. Carl Jung wrote about it as well. Like this one. http://www.elhazablaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/SEPTEM-SERMONES-AD-MORTUOS.jpg
February 19, 2013