immediatorial

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immediatorial (comparative more immediatorial, superlative most immediatorial)

  1. (chiefly Christianity, possibly obsolete) Not mediatorial; immediate.
    • 1865, August Neander, History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles, page 485:
      ... from everything that opposed the divine operation in their souls, and who have been transformed into undimmed organs of God, for whose glory all things shall serve. The mediatorial kingdom of God will then merge into the immediatorial.
    • 1872, Frederick William Robertson, Expository Lectures on St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians: Delivered at Brighton: By the Late Rev. Frederick W. Robertson ..., page 227:
      Then God will be known immediately. We shall know Him, when the mediatorial has merged in the immediatorial, in a way more high, more intimate, more sublime, than even through Christ.