- INFRALAPSARIANS
- those Calvinists who believe that election and predestination are subsequent to the Fall, while the Supralapsarians believe that these ordinations are as old as eternity.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
INFRALAPSARIANS
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