CHAPTER II: QUESTION 28 THE DIVINE RELATIONS

[199] A. Michel, "Relations et personnes divines" in Dict. theol. cath.

[200] Question 29, art. 4.

[201] Council of Florence; cf. Denz., no. 703

[202] St. Thomas, De potentia, q. 7, a. 9.

[203] Categ., chap. 5; Met., V, 15.

[204] Categ., chap. 5

[205] Contra Gentes, Bk. IV, chap. 14

[206] De potentia, q. 7, a. 9 ad 7

[207] Every accident inheres at least aptitudinally in the subject. This aptitude remains in the Eucharistic accidents, which are without any subject. According to the laws of nature, however, an accident is also actually in the subject. Miraculously this is not verified in the Eucharistic accidents.

[208] Summa, IIIa, q. 2, a. 7.

[209] Denz., nos. 40, 60, 85, 231, 271

[210] Rouet de Journel, Ench. patrist., Index theologicus, no. 178, where a collection of references to the Greek and Latin Fathers will be found

[211] Orat. 30, no. 16; Journel, no. 990

[212] Journel, Index theologicus, no. 178

[213] See especially De Trinitate, V, 6.

[214] Tixeront, Histoire des dogmes (8th ed.; 1924), II, 365 f.

[215] St. Augustine, De Trinitate, V, vi, 16; ibid., VII, xxiv; De civitate Dei, XI, x, 1. 18 Denz., nos. 278, 280, 281. Similarly in the Council of Reims (1148), Denz., no. 389; the Fourth Lateran Council, Denz., no. 432; the Council of Florence, Denz., no. 703.

[216] Denz., no. 703

[217] Cf. Harduin, Concil. Collectio, IX, 203

[218] Ibid., IX, 339. Cf. St. Anselm, De proc. Spir. Sancti, chap. 2

[219] St. Thomas, I Sent., 26, 33; Contra Gentes, IV, 14; De potentia, q. 2, a. 6; q. 8, a. 1

[220] Boetius, De Trin., chap. 6. Cf. art. 3 below

[221] St. Thomas, De potentia, q. 2, a. 2 and 5

[222] Ibid., q. 7, a. 9 ad 7.

[223] Denz., no. 390

[224] Ibid., no. 391

[225] Summa, Ia, q. 13, a. 12; q. 3, a. 3.

[226] Denz, no. 431

[227] Ibid., no. 523

[228] Summa, Ia, q. 3, a. 6.

[229] Billot. th. 8

[230] St. Thomas, Summa, Ia, q. 28, a. 1; De potentia, q. 7, a. 9, no. 7.

[231] Summa, Ia, q. 28, a. 2

[232] Summa, IIIa, q. 17, a. 2 ad 3

[233] De mysterio Sanctissimae Trinitatis, Bk. IV, chap. 3.

[234] Cf. a. 3 ad 2, 3 below

[235] Loc. cit.

[236] Cf. Cajetan, Ia, q. 39, a. 1, no. 8

[237] Ibid., no. 7

[238] Summa, Ia, q. 27, a. 2 ad 3; q. 28, a. 2 ad 3

[239] Cajetan, op. cit., Ia, q. 39, a. 1

[240] Ibid., Ia, q. 39, a. 1, no. 7.

[241] Ibid., no. 8.

[242] Summa, IIIa, q. 17, a. 2 ad 3; De potentia, q. 8, a. 2 ad 11; q. 9, a. 5 ad 10

[243] Summa, IIIa, q. 17, a. 2.

[244] Exod. 3:14

[245] St. Augustine, De Trin., V, 8

[246] Summa, Ia, q. 42, a. 4 ad 2.

[247] De potentia, q. 2, a. 5.

[248] Summa, Ia, q. 28, a. 2

[249] Cf. Bossuet, "Dieu n'est pas plus grand pour avoir cree l'univers."

[250] Cajetan on Ia, q. 19, a. 2, no. 3

[251] Cajetan, IIIa, q. 1, a. 1, no. 6

[252] Garrigou-Lagrange, The One God, p. 500

[253] St. Augustine, De Trinitate, Bk. VI, chap. 8; Bk. VIII, chap. 1

[254] Cf. below, p. 170

[255] Denz., no. 703

[256] Harduin, Conciliorum Collectio, IX, 203.

[257] Ibid., IX, 339. For earlier councils, cf. Eleventh Council of Toledo and Fourth Council of the Lateran, Denz., 39, 231, 281, 523 f

[258] St. Anselm, De process. Spiritus Sancti, chap. 2 (Migne, PL, 158, 288).

[259] De Trinitate, V, XV

[260] Cf. Rouet de Journel, Ench. patrist., Index theologicus, no. 148. Many references to the texts of the Greek and Latin Fathers quoted in this work will be found here

[261] De potentia, q. 7, a. 8 ad 4.

[262] The term "opposition" often causes equivocations. Thus the rationalists say that reason and Christian faith are opposed, by which they mean that Christian faith is against reason. Actually faith is above reason, and a mutual relation exists between faith and reason, as the Vatican Council explains. Cf. Denz., nos. 1795, 1800

[263] Cajetan, Ia, q. 39, a. 1, no. 7.

[264] St. Thomas, In I Sent., d. 2, q. 1, a. 5 ad 4

[265] St. Thomas, De potentia, q. 2, a. 5

[266] Cf. Disp. metaph., Dist., X, 3, 14

[267] Suarez, De Trinitate, Bk. IV, chap. 3, no. 7

[268] Summa, IIIa, q. 17, a. 2 ad 3

[269] Suarez, De myst. SS. Trinitatis, Bk. III, chap. 5. For a criticism of Suarez' position, see L. Billot, S.J., Th. VIII, Epilogus, and N. del Prado, O.P., De veritate fundamentali philosophiae christianae (1911), pp. 529-44.

[270] Del Prado, O.P., ibid., p. 540

[271] See below, the recapitulation of this question

[272] It is true that relation may refer to quality, as for instance in the relation of similarity. But in God quality is reduced to the divine essence, which is numerically the same in the three persons

[273] Summa, Ia, q. 30, a. 2 ad 1.

[274] Ibid., q. 36, a. 3 ad 2

[275] Ibid., q. 42, a. 1. ad 4

[276] Del Prado, op. cit., p. 543