supersubstantialem

• Language: Latin
• Romanized: supersubstantialem
• Original script: supersubstantialem
• Gloss: supersubstantial

Jerome’s Matthean rendering of epiousios, with Eucharistic and theological afterlives. Bread above substance, bread beyond ordinary being — the choice opened a door that later readers would walk through toward the altar.

Related entries

• Epiousios — the Greek word it translates
• Quotidianum — Jerome’s Lucan rendering
• Crastinum — Jerome’s gloss for mahar
• Mahar — the reported Aramaic reading
• Ton Arton Hemon Ton Epiousion — the Matthean petition phrase