154. These things are narrow and paltry, even
between men, who for the most part, although they do not agree in
action, yet agree in will. So that a certain person being asked
what a friend is, answered, “A second self.” If,
then, a man so defined a friend as to say, he was a second self, that
is to say, through a oneness of love and good-will, how much more ought
we to esteem the oneness of Majesty, in the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Ghost, when by the same operation and divine power, either the
unity, or certainly that which is more, the ταυτότης, as it
is called in Greek, is expressed, for ταύτο signifies “the
same,” so that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have the
same; so that to have the same will and the same power does not arise
from the affection of the will, but inheres in the substance of the
Trinity.