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Chapter 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 knowledge from knowing; so from
being566
comes that
which we call essence. And who is there that is, more than He who
said to His servant Moses, “I am that I am;” and, “Thus shall
thou say unto the children of Israel, He who is hath sent me unto
you?”567
But other
things that are called essences or substances admit of accidents,
whereby a change, whether great or small, is produced in them. But
there can be no accident of this kind in respect to God; and
therefore He who is God is the only unchangeable substance or
essence, to whom certainly being itself,
whence comes the name of essence, most especially and most truly
belongs. For that which is changed does not retain its own being;
and that which can be changed, although it be not actually changed,
is able not to be that which it had been; and hence that which not
only is not changed, but also cannot at all be changed, alone falls
most truly, without difficulty or hesitation, under the category of
being.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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