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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(Heb. 11:1), and the same Apostle says also," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world; but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery which is hidden" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whoever wholly resists the word, is far off from our philosophy; whereas if he regards the truth of the word --i.e." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We speak the wisdom of God which none of the princes of the world --i.e. the philosophers--" }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth, subjoined," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God said, Let there be light, to manifest the divine Word; and then said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "God saw the light that it was good," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must not dare to say anything of God but what is taught to us by the Holy Scripture." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We recognize difference of hypostases [i.e. of persons], in the three properties; i.e. in the paternal, the filial, and the processional." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beseech your kindness" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whereby are They one God? and whereby are They three persons? as we answer that They are one in essence or deity; so there must also be some abstract terms whereby we may answer that the persons are distinguished; and these are the properties or notions signified by an abstract ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As the source of another, He can be known in two ways, because as the Son is from Him, the Father is known by the notion of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "; and as the Holy Ghost is from Him, He is known by the notion of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No error is more dangerous than any as regards the Trinity" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Father" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Father is the Principle of the whole Deity." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "indifferently, when speaking of God; whereas the Latin Doctors do not use the word" }, { "from": "human", "value": "but only" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The reason is because" }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By authority of the Giver, the Father is the greater; nevertheless the Son is not less to Whom oneness of nature is give." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Father is not properly the name of a divine person. For the name" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Father signifies relation. Moreover" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is an individual substance. Therefore th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He shall cry out to me: Thou art my Father." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Father," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "among us does not signify a person, but the relation of a person. In God, however, it is ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "like the other terms properly applied to God, are said of God before creatures as regards the thing signified, but not as regards the mode of signification. Hence also the Apostle says," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Father is not applied to God, firstly as a personal name. For in the intellect the common precedes the particular. But this name" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Father as a personal name, belongs to the person of the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is the father of the rain? or who begot the drops of dew? Of some, namely, the rational creature (He is the Father), by reason of the likeness of His image, according to Deut. 32:6:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is He not thy Father, who possessed, and made, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One is from one--that is, the Begotten is from the Unbegotten--namely, by the property in each one respectively of innascibility and origin." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as a property of the Father, is not a negative term only, but either that it means both these things together--namely, that the Father is from no one, and that He is the principle of others; or that it imports universal authority, or also His plenitude as the source of all. This...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unbegotten is taken sometimes in a negative sense only, and in that sense Jerome says that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "that is, He is not begotten. Otherwise" }, { "from": "human", "value": "may be taken in a kind of privative sense, but not as implyin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in one sense signifies the same as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "; and thus it applies to the substance, for thereby does the created substance differ from the uncreated. In another sense it signifies what is not begotten, and in this sense it is a relative term; ju...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To admit two innascibles is to suppose the existence of two Gods, and two divine natures. Hence Hilary says (De Synod.):" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As there is one God, so there cannot be two innascibles." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Son," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Word, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Image." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the beginning was the Word." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Word is knowledge with love; and according to Anselm (Monol. lx)," }, { "from": "human", "value": "To speak is to the Supreme Spirit nothing but to see by thought." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fire, hail, snow, ice, the storms which do His Word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As the Son is related to the Father, so also is the Word to Him Whose Word He is." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is called" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "which is the first kind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Again, he says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "which is the third kind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Again, also," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "for it is nothing but the concept of the Wise One; and in the same way It can be called" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thus can also be explained how" }, { "from": "human", "value": "is in God" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "forasmuch as the Wo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Word" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bearing all things by the word of His power;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By Word we understand the Son alone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Word," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To be and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "are not the same in us. Hence that which in us has intellectual being, does not belong to our nature. But in God" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "are one and the same:...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Word the same property is comprised as in the name Son. Hence Augustine says (De Trin. vii, 11):" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Word and Son express the same." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bearing all things by the word of His power ;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is taken figuratively for the effect of the Word. Hence a gloss says that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Word" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Creator." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He spake, and they were made;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Godhead of the Holy Trinity and the Image whereunto man is made are one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An image is a like species of that which it represents." }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But in the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Holy Ghost is the Image of the Son." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The man ought not to cover his head, for he is the image and the glory of God." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Son alone is the Image of the Father." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who is the Image of the invisible God, the firstborn of creatures (Col...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "whereby is expressed a certain movement of tendency to perfection. But it cannot be said that the Son of God is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Holy Ghost" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Holy Ghost," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Holy Ghost" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Holy Ghost, is not the proper name of one divine person. For no name which is common to the three persons is the proper name of any one person. But this name of 'Holy Ghost' [*It should be borne in mind that the word" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Holy Ghost" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father we understand the relation of principle; and likewise in the name of Spirit inasmuch as it implies a moving power. But to no creature does it belong to be a principle as regards a divine person; but rather the reverse. Therefore we can say" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We say that the Holy Ghost is from the Father, and we name Him the spirit of the Father; but we do not say that the Holy Ghost is from the Son, yet we name Him the Spirit of the Son." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peace be to you and to all who believe in the one God...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(Phys. iii, text 32), and much less so in God. But it is possible for the Holy Ghost to be distinguished from the Son, even if He did not proceed from Him. For Anselm says (De Process. Spir. Sancti, ii):" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Son and the Holy Ghost have ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; and that He is from the Father" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some of them are said also to concede that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He is from the Son ; or that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He flows from the Son," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He will glorify Me, because He shall receive of Mine (John 16:14). It is also a rule of Holy Scripture that whatever is said of the Father, applies to the Son, although there be added an exclusive term; except only as regards what belongs to the opposite relations, whereby the F...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining upon Him, He it is who baptizes" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep me, I pray, in this expression of my faith, that I may ever possess the Father--namely Thyself: that I may adore Thy Son together with Thee: and that I may deserve Thy Holy Spirit, who is through Thy Only Begotten." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "points out, in w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Father and the Son are one principle of the Holy Ghost, because, they declare, since the word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in the singular number does not signify" }, { "from": "human", "value": "but" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "it mus...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Father and the Son are one principle which is the Father, or," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "are not mutually contradictory; and hence it is not necessary to assert one or other of them. For when we say the Father and the Son are one principle, this word" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Love," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Love" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Love is not the proper name of the Holy Ghost. For Augustine says (De Trin. xv, 17):" }, { "from": "human", "value": "As the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are called Wisdom, and are not three Wisdoms, but one; I know not w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Love is a unitive force." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Holy Ghost Himself is Love." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as stated above (Q. 27, A. 4, ad 3), and yet express the origin rather than the relation in the strict sense of the term. Nevertheless we must consider them in respect of each procession simply. For as when a thing is understood by ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Father and the Son love each other by the Holy Ghost, this word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is to be taken either essentially or notionally. But it cannot be true if taken essentially, because in the same way we might say that" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; and they add that it was retracted by Augustine when he retracted its equivalent to the effect that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Others say that the proposition is inaccurate and ought to be expounded, as that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "--that i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "from whiteness, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "from humanity; everything whence anything is denominated, in this particular respect stands to that thing in the relation of form. So when I say," }, { "from": "human", "value": "the ablative is to be con...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "this imports only a notional act. Hence we cannot say that the Father spirates by the Holy Ghost, or begets by the Son. But we can say that the Father speaks by the Word, as by the Person proceeding," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gift" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gift" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gift is not a personal name. For every personal name imports a distinction in God. But the name of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gift does not import a distinction in G...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gift" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A Son is given to us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God's Gift" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As 'to be born' is, for the Son, to be from the Father, so, for the Holy Ghost, 'to be the Gift of God' is to proceed from Father and Son." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the gift, which is the Holy Ghost, many particular gifts are portioned out to the members of Christ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God so loved the world, as to give His only begotten Son" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gift" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When we say the person of the Father we mean nothing else but the substance of the Father." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "some have thought that in God essence and person differ, forasmuch as they held the relations to be" }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "_supposita,_ or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So the divine persons are named _supposita_ or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "but not as if there really existed any real" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "lest we should seem to indicate a distinction between the essence and the persons in God. But prepositions which imply transition, denote the oblique case. Therefore it is equally wrong to say that the three persons are" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One substance pr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That woman is of a handsome figure, or:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This man is of perfect virtue." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I and the Father are one (John 10:30), and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am in the Father, and the Father in Me (John 10:38)" }, { "from": "human", "value": "designates the principle of action while" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "comes from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God begot God. For, as the logicians say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But this name" }, { "from": "human", "value": "God" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God creates, this name" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God stands for the essence. So when we say" }, { "from": "human", "value": "God begot, this term" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God" }, { "from": "human", "value": "God begot, b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God stands for the person in a different way from that in which this word" }, { "from": "human", "value": "does; for since the form signified by this word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--that is, humanity--i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Essence begets essence. For Augustine says (De Trin. vii, i, 2):" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Father and the Son are one Wisdom, because they are one essence; and taken singly Wisdom is from Wisdom, as essence from essence." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God begets God. Therefore this is also true:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Essence begets essence." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "because the essence is the Father who is begetting. Therefore if the essence is not begetting, the essence will be" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Father is the principle of the whole Godhead." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God begot God, so we can say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Essence begot essence : considering that, by reason of the divine simplicity God is nothing else but the divine essence. In this he was wrong, because if we wish to express ourselves correctly, we must take ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "; we should take the sense to be, _the Son_ who is essence and wisdom, is from the Father who is essence and wisdom. Nevertheless, as regards these abstract names a certain order should be observed, forasmuch as what belongs to act...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; yet we can say that the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or that it is" }, { "from": "human", "value": "God begetting, if" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and God stand for person, but not if they stand for essence. Consequently there exists no ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God is three persons ; or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God is the Trinity. For it is false to say," }, { "from": "human", "value": "because it cannot be verified as regards any particular subject. For neither Socrates, nor Plato, nor anyone else is ever...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eternity is in the Father, the species in the Image; and use is in the Gift. In which words he designates three names proper to the persons: the name of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Father, the name" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Image proper to t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unity is in the Father, equality in the Son, and in the Holy Ghost is the concord of equality and unity. This does not, however, seem fitting; because one person does not receive formal denomination from what is appropriated to another. For the Father is not wise by the wisdom b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is appropriated to the Father, species to the Son," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to the Holy Ghost. For" }, { "from": "human", "value": "as meaning a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "without a principle, has a likeness to the property of the Fa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In that view Augustine (De Doctr. Christ. i, 5) appropriates" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to the Father," }, { "from": "human", "value": "to the Son," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "to the Holy ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This kind of appropriation is made both by reason of similitude as regards what exists in the divine persons, and by reason of dissimilitude if we consider what is in creatures. For" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For this preposition" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[ex] sometimes implies a certain relation of the material cause; which has no place in God; and sometimes it expresses the relation of the efficient cause, which can be applied to God by reason of His active power; ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "belongs to the intellect, as stated above (Q. 16, A. 1), it is appropriated to the Son, without, however, being a property of His. For truth can be considered as existing in the thought or in the thing itself. Hence, as intellect and thing in their essential meaning, are referre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "something, but rather existence" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "something. Whence, they styled the relations" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the persons; for, they said, there are no properties in God except in our way of speaking, as stated above (Q. 32, A. 2). We must, however, say that there are properties in God; as we have shown (Q. 32, A. 2). These are designated by abstract terms, being forms, as it were, of t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Godhead and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Relation alone multiplies the Trinity of the divine persons." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Although these do not really differ, yet they differ in the mode of signification; for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father signifies not only a property, but also the hypostasis; whereas this term" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Begetter or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Begetting signifies property only; forasmuch as this name" }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So when paternity is mentally abstracted from the Father, He still remains" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Unbegotten is not the same as Father; for if the Father had not begotten the Son, nothing would prevent Him being called unbegotten." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Son has nothing else than birth. But He is Son by" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or a hypostasis. It does not follow, however, that the Son is not" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the term" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Father" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whatever is predicated of God, of whatever genus it be, becomes the divine substance, except what pertains to the relation." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a property of the Father to beget the Son." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(Sent. i, D, xxvi). To see this, we must consider that the origin of one thing from another is firstly inferred from movement: for that anything be changed from its disposition by movement evidently arises from some cause. Hence action, in its primary sense, means origin of move...