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Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), Sandro Botticelli

On the Holy Trinity, Book VII

Sandro Botticelli, Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), c. 1480 · Ognissanti, Florence · Public domainSandro Botticelli, Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), c. 1480, Ognissanti, Florence

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He resolves the question he had deferred, and teaches us that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one power and one wisdom, no otherwise than one God an

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Book VII

  • On the Holy Trinity VII.1 — Chapter 1.—Augustin Returns to the Question, Whether Each Person of the Trinity by Itself is Wisdom. With What Difficulty, or in What Way, the Proposed Question is to Be Solved. 1. Let us now inquire more carefully,…vatican.va
  • On the Holy Trinity VII.2 — The Father and the Son are Together One Wisdom, as One Essence, Although Not Together One Word. Chapter 2.—The Father and the Son are Together One Wisdom, as One Essence, Although Not Together One Word. 3. Therefore…vatican.va
  • On the Holy Trinity VII.3 — Chapter 3.—Why the Son Chiefly is Intimated in the Scriptures by the Name of Wisdom, While Both the Father and the Holy Spirit are Wisdom. That the Holy Spirit, Together with the Father and the Son, is One Wisdom. 4.…vatican.va
  • On the Holy Trinity VII.4 — Chapter 4.—How It Was Brought About that the Greeks Speak of Three Hypostases, the Latins of Three Persons. Scripture Nowhere Speaks of Three Persons in One God. 7. For the sake, then, of speaking of things that…vatican.va
  • On the Holy Trinity VII.5 — In God, Substance is Spoken Improperly, Essence Properly. 10. If, however, it is fitting that God should be said to subsist—(For this word is rightly applied to those things, in which as subjects those things are,…vatican.va
  • On the Holy Trinity VII.6 — Chapter 6.—Why We Do Not in the Trinity Speak of One Person, and Three Essences. What He Ought to Believe Concerning the Trinity Who Does Not Receive What is Said Above. Man is Both After the Image, and is the Image…vatican.va

Scripture cited · 32 verses

Genesis 1:26 · Genesis 46:27 · Exodus 3:14 · Deuteronomy 6:4 · Deuteronomy 10:22 · Psalm 36:9 · Isaiah 7:9 · Matthew 5:14 · Matthew 11:27 · John 1:1 · John 1:3 · John 1:9 · John 1:10 · John 1:14 · John 5:2 · John 10:30 · John 14:23 · Romans 5:5 · Romans 12:2 · 1 Corinthians 1:24 · 1 Corinthians 1:30 · 1 Corinthians 3:16 · 1 Corinthians 6:19 · 1 Corinthians 6:20 · 1 Corinthians 11:7 · Ephesians 5:1 · Philippians 2:7 · Colossians 1:18 · Colossians 3:10 · 1 Timothy 1:15 · 1 John 1:5 · 1 John 4:8

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