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Therefore, the day of Our Lord's nativity was to be called [Greek: epiphania], or, appearing of the Light; and so many tapers were to be set up the night before, as might give name to the vigil, '_Vigilia Luminum_'.
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It comes from Greco-Latin theophania (while Epiphany represents epiphania), which gave the French female name Tiphaine, whence our Tiffin.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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See Texts. epi, verbs compounded with, p. 163-4. epiphania, ta, p. 204.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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We know that, as a matter of fact, "the Epiphanies" (for ta epiphania is the name of the Festival) became in consequence distributed over
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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While the dynamic of obsessio and epiphania is universal, for some individuals, the emphasis falls heaviest on obsessio; for others, on epiphania … There is reason to believe that such temperaments become established at an early age. iii.
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But Jones's formulation is interesting in he contends that obsessio / epiphania asymmetries might be congenital.
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That is, the sick soul experience (obsessio dominating over epiphania) can be one's spiritual "personality."
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These five worlds are identified by unique experiences of what Jones calls obsessio and epiphania.
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Jones's distinction between the experiences of obsessio and epiphania are helpful as they allow us to examine the relative balance between the experiences.
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If obsessio is experienced as the predicament or brokenness of existence, then epiphania is experienced as resolution, answer and salvation (pp. 28, 37, emphases in original):
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