Scientia potentia est phrase ""sapientia est potentia"" is often translated as "wisdom is power". The earliest documented occurrence of the phrase "Knowledge is power" is from Imam Ali (599-661 CE), as recorded in the tenth-century book Nahj Al-Balagha (originally in Arabic). He said: Another account of this concept is found in the Shahnameh by the Persian poet Ferdowsi (940–1020 CE) who wrote: "Capable is he who is wise" (in Persian: توانا بود هر که دانا بود). This hemistich is translated to English as "knowledge is power" or "One who has wisdom is powerful". A proverb in practically the same wording is found in
Subsistit in Subsistit in Subsistit in (subsists in) is a Latin phrase, which appears in the eighth paragraph of "Lumen gentium," a landmark document of the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church: This sentence and the correct meaning of "subsists in" affects the "definition of the Church" with important implications for how the Catholic Church views itself, its relations with other Christian communities and other religions. Questions have been raised, if "Lumen gentium" reworded the longstanding phrase, which stated that the Church of Christ is (Latin "est") the Catholic Church. "Lumen gentium" does recognize that other Christian ecclesial communities have elements