Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>We believe, we maintain, we faithfully preach, that the\r\nFather begat the Word, that is, Wisdom, by which all things\r\nwere made, the only-begotten Son, one as the Father is one,\r\neternal as the Father is eternal, and, equally with the Father,\r\nsupremely good; and that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit alike\r\nof Father and of Son, and is Himself consubstantial and co-eternal\r\nwith both; and that this whole is a Trinity by reason\r\nof the individuality<a id=\"FNanchor_492_492\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_492_492\">[492]</a> of the persons, and one God by reason\r\nof the indivisible divine substance, as also one Almighty by\r\nreason of the indivisible omnipotence; yet so that, when we\r\ninquire regarding each singly, it is said that each is God\r\nand Almighty; and, when we speak of all together, it is said\r\nthat there are not three Gods, nor three Almighties, but one\r\nGod Almighty; so great is the indivisible unity of these\r\nThree, which requires that it be so stated. But, whether\r\nthe Holy Spirit of the Father, and of the Son, who are both\r\ngood, can be with propriety called the goodness of both, because<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_466\">[Pg 466]</a></span>\r\nHe is common to both, I do not presume to determine\r\nhastily. Nevertheless, I would have less hesitation in saying\r\nthat He is the holiness of both, not as if He were a divine\r\nattribute merely, but Himself also the divine substance, and\r\nthe third person in the Trinity. I am the rather emboldened\r\nto make this statement, because, though the Father is a spirit,\r\nand the Son a spirit, and the Father holy, and the Son holy,\r\nyet the third person is distinctively called the Holy Spirit,\r\nas if He were the substantial holiness consubstantial with the\r\nother two. But if the divine goodness is nothing else than\r\nthe divine holiness, then certainly it is a reasonable studiousness,\r\nand not presumptuous intrusion, to inquire whether the\r\nsame Trinity be not hinted at in an enigmatical mode of\r\nspeech, by which our inquiry is stimulated, when it is written\r\nwho made each creature, and by what means, and why. For\r\nit is the Father of the Word who said, Let there be. And\r\nthat which was made when He spoke was certainly made by\r\nmeans of the Word. And by the words, \"God saw that it\r\nwas good,\" it is sufficiently intimated that God made what\r\nwas made not from any necessity, nor for the sake of supplying\r\nany want, but solely from His own goodness, <i>i.e.</i>, because\r\nit was good. And this is stated after the creation had taken\r\nplace, that there might be no doubt that the thing made satisfied\r\nthe goodness on account of which it was made. And if\r\nwe are right in understanding that this goodness is the Holy\r\nSpirit, then the whole Trinity is revealed to us in the creation.\r\nIn this, too, is the origin, the enlightenment, the blessedness\r\nof the holy city which is above among the holy angels.\r\nFor if we inquire whence it is, God created it; or whence its\r\nwisdom, God illumined it; or whence its blessedness, God is\r\nits bliss. It has its form by subsisting in Him; its enlightenment\r\nby contemplating Him; its joy by abiding in Him. It\r\nis; it sees; it loves. In God's eternity is its life; in God's\r\ntruth its light; in God's goodness its joy.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK ELEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-805"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"137d0d549daa45e361bc37439ce8d6aca7f5a3e39ef8a43bacd2790c99343837","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. 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