Chapter 5
5. The true objects of enjoyment, then, are the Father and the Son and the
Holy Spirit, who are at the same time the Trinity, one Being, supreme above
all, and common to all who enjoy Him, if He is an object, and not rather the
cause of all objects, or indeed even if He is the cause of all. For it is not
easy to find a name that will suitably express so great excellence, unless it
is better to speak in this way: The Trinity, one God, of whom are all things,
through whom are all things, in whom are all things. Thus the Father and the
Son and the Holy Spirit, and each of these by Himself, is God, and at the same
time they are all one God; and each of them by Himself is a complete
substance, and yet they are all one substance. The Father is not the Son nor
the Holy Spirit; the Son is not the Father nor the Holy Spirit; the Holy
Spirit is not the Father nor the Son: but the Father is only Father, the Son
is only Son, and the Holy Spirit is only Holy Spirit. To all three belong the
same eternity, the same unchangeableness, the same majesty, the same power. In
the Father is unity, in the Son equality, in the Holy Spirit the harmony of
unity and equality; and these three attributes are all one because of the
Father, all equal because of the Son, and all harmonious because of the Holy
Spirit.
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