 Unitarians hold that 'the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are mentioned together [in the New Testament] in the same context, but not in any way that suggests they are all distinct persons who together comprise the totality of God'; a 'literary triad does not equate to an ontological triunity'.This triadic pattern is even more marked in the glimpses available of the early Church's liturgy and day-to-day catechetical practice.Even so, some have said that the 'indications from the apostolic and sub-apostolic writers are that [their] triadic formulas...do not carry the same significance as post-Nicene triadic formulas'.