XIV.
But if they say, How can there be three Persons,
and how but one Divinity?—we shall make this reply: That
there are indeed three persons, inasmuch as there is one person of God
the Father, and one of the Lord the Son, and one of the Holy Spirit;
and yet that there is but one divinity, inasmuch as the Son is the
Image of God the Father, who is One,—that is, He is God of God;
and in like manner the Spirit is called the Spirit of God, and that,
too, of nature according to the very substance,330
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and not according to simple participation
of
God. And there is one substance
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in the
Trinity, which does not subsist
also in the case of objects that are made; for there is not one
substance in
God and in the things that are made, because none of these
is in substance
God. Nor, indeed, is the
Lord one of these
according to substance, but there is one
Lord the Son, and one Holy
Spirit; and we speak also of one
Divinity, and one Lordship, and one
Sanctity in the
Trinity; because the
Father is the Cause
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of the
Lord, having begotten Him
eternally, and the
Lord is the Prototype
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of the Spirit. For thus the
Father is Lord, and the Son also is God; and of God it is said that
“God is a Spirit.”
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