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Supralapsarian


SUPRALAPSA'RIAN

SUPRALAP'SARY, adjective [Latin supra and lapsus, fall.]

Antecedent to the apostasy of Adam.

SUPRALAPSA'RIAN, noun One who maintains that God, antecedent to the fall of man or any knowledge of it, decreed the apostasy and all its consequences, determining to save some and condemn others, and that in all he does he considers his own glory only.