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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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