72. But perhaps the word similarity
may not seem fully appropriate. If so, I ask how I can express
the equality of one Person with the other except by such a word?
Or is to be like not the same thing as to be equal? If I say the
divine nature is one I am suspected of meaning that it is
undifferentiated: if I say the Persons are similar, I mean that I
compare what is exactly like. I ask what position equal
holds between like and one? I enquire whether it
means similarity rather than singularity. Equality does not exist
between things unlike, nor does similarity exist in one. What is
the difference between those that are similar and those that are
equal? Can one equal be distinguished from the other? So
those who are equal are not unlike. If then those who are unlike
are not equals, what can those who are like be but equals?