premundane

Time, as we shall see later, cannot exist without motion and moving things, hence before the world there was no time, and the fourth argument does not apply to premundane existence.

The latter is the only one who has recognised with perfect clearness that the premundane Christ must be assumed to be θεος 'ων εν αρχη προς τον θεον, so as not to endanger by this speculation the contents and significance of the revelation of God which was given in Christ.

Sabellianism did it at the cost of his premundane and real personality, and therefore by common consent was out of the question.