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| Nothing is Spoken of God According to Accident, But According to Substance or According to Relation.
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Chapter 5.—Nothing is Spoken
of God According to Accident, But According to Substance or
According to Relation.
6. Wherefore nothing in Him is said
in respect to accident, since nothing is accidental to Him, and yet
all that is said is not said according to substance. For in created
and changeable things, that which is not said according to
substance, must, by necessary alternative, be said according to
accident. For all things are accidents to them, which can be either
lost or diminished, whether magnitudes or qualities; and so also is
that which is said in relation to something, as friendships,
relationships, services, likenesses, equalities, and anything else
of the kind; so also positions and conditions,570
places and times, acts and
passions. But in God nothing is said to be according to accident,
because in Him nothing is changeable; and yet everything that is
said, is not said, according to substance. For it is said in
relation to something, as the Father in relation to the Son and the
Son in relation to the Father, which is not accident; because both
the one is always Father, and the other is always Son: yet not
“always,” meaning from the time when the Son was born
[natus], so that the Father ceases not to be the Father
because the Son never ceases to be the Son, but because the
Son was always born, and never began to be the Son. But if
He had begun to be at any time, or were at any time to cease to be,
the Son, then He would be called Son according to accident. But if
the Father, in that He is called the Father, were so called in
relation to Himself, not to the Son; and the Son, in that He is
called the Son, were so called in relation to Himself, not to the
Father; then both the one would be called Father, and the other
Son, according to substance. But because the Father is not called
the Father except in that He has a Son, and the Son is not called
Son except in that He has a Father, these things are not said
according to substance; because each of them is not so called in
relation to Himself, but the terms are used reciprocally and in
relation each to the other; nor yet according to accident, because
both the being called the Father, and the being called the Son, is
eternal and unchangeable to them. Wherefore, although to be the
Father and to be the Son is different, yet their substance is not
different; because they are so called, not according to substance,
but according to relation, which relation, however, is not
accident, because it is not changeable.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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