By such means the council affirmed a realist hermeneutic of the biblical analogy of Sonship and Fatherhood. It clarified that the traditional phrase “begotten from the Father” meant “from the essence (ousia) of the Father.” It also turned to make specific clarifications of older, traditional statements about the Son’s manner of procession from God. To avoid any lingering subordinationist hermeneutic of “a (secondary) god from (a higher) God,” or “a (smaller) light from the (great) Light,” it added