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But God is truly called in manifold ways, great, good, wise,
blessed, true, and whatsoever other thing seems to be said of Him not
unworthily: but His greatness is the same as His wisdom; for He is
not great by bulk, but by power; and His goodness is the same as His
wisdom and greatness, and His truth the same as all those things; and
in Him it is not one thing to be blessed, and another to be great, or
wise, or true, or good, or in a word to be Himself.
9. Neither, since He is a Trinity, is He therefore to be thought
triple (triplex) otherwise the Father alone, or the Son alone,
will be less than the Father and Son together. Although, indeed,
it is hard to see how we can say, either the Father alone, or the
Son alone; since both the Father is with the Son, and the Son with
the Father, always and inseparably: not that both are the Father,
or both are the Son; but because they are always one in relation to
the other, and neither the one nor the other alone. But because we
call even the Trinity itself God alone, although He is always with
holy spirits and souls, but say that He only is God, because they
are not also God with Him; so we call the Father the Father alone,
not because He is separate from the Son, but because they are not
both together the Father.
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