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Reply. We cannot say that the Father is alone
categorematically because the Father is not solitary; but
syncategorematically we can say, for instance, that in
God the Father alone enunciates or begets.
When the Church proclaims, "Thou only, O Jesus
Christ, art most high," she does not wish to say that
the Son alone is most high but that the Son alone is most
high with the Holy Ghost in the glory of the
Father.[332] When Jesus said that no one knows the
Son except the Father, He did not wish to say that the
Son and Holy Ghost do not know the Son, because the
persons are not excluded unless there is relative
opposition, as when we say, the Father alone begets.
In this brief examination of the correct mode of speaking
about the Trinity, we see how amazing it is that human
language with all its limitations and inadequacies is able
to develop such precision in enunciating a mystery that is
in itself ineffable.
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