CONCERNING THE TRINITY. 307 selvesthe capacityof change,not having a beginningwherein iscauseof change. And thusHe isdeclaredtobe one,having no equal. For whatever can be God, must as God be of necessitythe Highest. But whatever isthe Highest,must certainlybe in such sensethe Highest as to be without any equal. And thus thatmust needs be aloneand one on which nothing can be conferred,having no peer; because there cannot be two infinites,as the very natureof thingsdictates. And thatisinfinitewhich neitherhasany sortofbeginningnor end. For whatever has occupiedthe whole excludesthe be ginningof another. Because ifHe doesnot containallwhich is,whatever itis; seeingthatwhat isfound in thatwhereby itiscontainedisfound to be lessthan thatwhereby itiscon tained; He willceasetobe God ; beingreducedintothepower of another[existence],in whose greatnessHe, being smaller, shallhave been included; and thereforewhat containedHim would then ratherclaim to be God. Whence itresultsthat God's own name alsocannotbe declared,becauseHe cannotbe conceived. For thatiscontainedin a name which isin any way comprehended from theconditionof His nature. For the name is the significationof that thingwhich couldbe com prehended from a name. But when that which is treated of is such thatitcannot be worthilygatheredintoone form by the very understandingitself,how shallit be set forth fittinglyin the one word of an appellation,seeingthat as it isbeyond the intellect,itmust alsoof necessitybe above the significancyof the appellation? As with reason when He appliesand prefersfrom certainreasonsand occasionsHis name of God, we know thatitisnot so much the legitimate proprietyof the appellationthatisset forth,as a certainsig nificancydeterminedforit,to which,whilemen betakethem selves,they seem to be able therebyto obtainGod's mercy. He isthereforealsoboth immortal and incorruptible,neither consciousof any kind of lossnor ending. For because He is incorruptible,He is thereforeimmortal; and because He is immortal,He is certainlyalsoincorruptible,— each being involved by turnsin the other,with itselfand in itself,by a mutual connection,and prolonged by a vicariousconcatena