| We could never know God's ousia, but in order to adapt his indescribable nature to our limited intellect, God communicated to us through his activities in the world. |
| Since ousia is a verbal noun formed from the participle on, this is not a perspicuous statement. |
| The Platonic origin of this conceptuality is clear in the explanation of the Cappadocian Fathers that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit share the same divine ousia in the way Peter, James, and John shared the same humanity. |
| This has lead scholars to conclude that ousia can function as the nominalization of the copula use of einai. |
| And there is reason in the Athenians calling that estia which participates in ousia. |
