On the Holy Trinity, Book V

Book V

• On the Holy Trinity V.1 — What the Author Entreats from God, What from the Reader. In God Nothing is to Be Thought Corporeal or Changeable. Chapter 1.—What the Author Entreats from God, What from the Reader. In God Nothing is to Be Thought…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.2 — God the Only Unchangeable Essence. 3. He is, however, without doubt, a substance, or, if it be better so to call it, an essence, which the Greeks call οὐσία. For as wisdom is so called from the being wise, and…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.3 — The Argument of the Arians is Refuted, Which is Drawn from the Words Begotten and Unbegotten. Chapter 3.—The Argument of the Arians is Refuted, Which is Drawn from the Words Begotten and Unbegotten. 4. Wherefore,—to…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.4 — The Accidental Always Implies Some Change in the Thing. 5. That which is accidental commonly implies that it can be lost by some change of the thing to which it is an accident. For although some accidents are said to…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.5 — Nothing is Spoken of God According to Accident, But According to Substance or According to Relation. Chapter 5.—Nothing is Spoken of God According to Accident, But According to Substance or According to Relation. 6.…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.6 — Reply is Made to the Cavils of the Heretics in Respect to the Same Words Begotten and Unbegotten. Chapter 6.—Reply is Made to the Cavils of the Heretics in Respect to the Same Words Begotten and Unbegotten. 7. But if…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.7 — The Addition of a Negative Does Not Change the Predicament. 8. This is to be made clear by examples. And first we must notice, that by the word begotten is signified the same thing as is signified by the word son.…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.8 — Chapter 8.—Whatever is Spoken of God According to Substance, is Spoken of Each Person Severally, and Together of the Trinity Itself. One Essence in God, and Three, in Greek, Hypostases, in Latin, Persons. 9.…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.9 — The Three Persons Not Properly So Called [in a Human Sense]. But because with us the usage has already obtained, that by essence we understand the same thing which is understood by substance; we do not dare to say…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.10 — Those Things Which Belong Absolutely to God as an Essence, are Spoken of the Trinity in the Singular, Not in the Plural. Chapter 10.—Those Things Which Belong Absolutely to God as an Essence, are Spoken of the…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.11 — What is Said Relatively in the Trinity. 12. But whereas, in the same Trinity, some things severally are specially predicated, these are in no way said in reference to themselves in themselves, but either in mutual…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.12 — In Relative Things that are Reciprocal, Names are Sometimes Wanting. 13. Neither ought it to influence us—since we have said that the Holy Spirit is so called relatively, not the Trinity itself, but He who is in the…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.13 — How the Word Beginning (Principium) is Spoken Relatively in the Trinity. 14. The Father is called so, therefore, relatively, and He is also relatively said to be the Beginning, and whatever else there may be of the…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.14 — The Father and the Son the Only Beginning (Principium) of the Holy Spirit. 15. But in their mutual relation to one another in the Trinity itself, if the begetter is a beginning in relation to that which he begets,…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.15 — Whether the Holy Spirit Was a Gift Before as Well as After He Was Given. 16. But it is asked further, whether, as the Son, by being born, has not only this, that He is the Son, but that He is absolutely; and so also…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity V.16 — What is Said of God in Time, is Said Relatively, Not Accidentally. 17. Nor let it trouble us that the Holy Spirit, although He is co-eternal with the Father and the Son, yet is called something which exists in time;…vatican.va