9. We have yet the operations of Power,
Wisdom, and Justice left, wherewith, severally, to prove [the
Son’s] eternity. “The act
of knowing and comprehending all things necessarily includes the
expression of mind-work or wisdom, that is, the Word, and without this
it cannot even be conceived of. Rightly, then, did the Fathers
deduce the eternity of the Word from the eternity of the
Father.”—Hurter, ad loc.