| ### QUESTION 40 ### OF THE PERSONS AS COMPARED TO THE RELATIONS OR PROPERTIES ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We now consider the persons in connection with the relations, or properties; and there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether relation is the same as person? #### (2) Whether the relations distinguish and constitute the persons? #### (3) Whether mental abstraction of the relations from the persons leaves the hypostases distinct? #### (4) Whether the relations, according to our mode of understanding, presuppose the acts of the persons, or contrariwise? ####  |