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  1 Pre|         than with my ability, that they have prescribed such a form
  2 Pre|        excuse myself; for the more they wanted this work to be adaptable
  3 Pre|   practical use, the more was what they enjoined on me difficult
  4 Pre|            I entered upon the work they asked for. But it is with
  5 Pre|        this work within the limits they set.~I was led to this undertaking
  6 Pre|      persons in one Substance. For they designate by the word substance
  7 1  |            only those things which they suppose to be good, it is
  8 1  |          whatever are good? Or are they good one through one thing
  9 1  |          that in mutual comparison they may be said to possess it
 10 1  |        unequally good, necessarily they are all good by virtue of
 11 1  |          goods, although sometimes they seem to be called good,
 12 1  |            useful or honorable, if they are truly good, are good
 13 1  |      another being than that which they themselves are, and this
 14 3  |           one being, through which they exist, or they exist separately,
 15 3  |       through which they exist, or they exist separately, each through
 16 3  |            each through itself, or they exist mutually through one
 17 3  |        existendi per se), by which they are able to exist each through
 18 3  |          doubt that, in that case, they exist through this very
 19 3  |          is one, and through which they are able to exist, each
 20 3  |       having mutual relations, yet they do not at all exist mutually,
 21 3  |      through the subjects to which they are referred.~Therefore,
 22 4  |         than one of this sort, and they are of equal degree.~But,
 23 4  |           of equal degree.~But, if they are more than one and equal,
 24 4  |          than one and equal, since they cannot be equal through
 25 4  |           one cause, through which they are equally so great, either
 26 4  |       great, either is itself what they are, that is, the very essence
 27 4  |            it is another than what they are.~But if it is nothing
 28 4  |            essence itself, just as they have not more than one essence,
 29 4  |           but a single essence, so they have not more than one nature,
 30 4  |            another than that which they are, then, certainly, they
 31 4  |         they are, then, certainly, they are less than that through
 32 4  |            than that through which they are so great. For, whatever
 33 4  |            it is great. Therefore, they are not so great that there
 34 4  |          nothing else greater than they.~But if, neither through
 35 4  |           if, neither through what they are nor through anything
 36 4  |           existing beings are what they are through it.~For since,
 37 5  |            source than it, just as they do not exist except through
 38 5  |           existing beings are what they are, through the supreme
 39 6  |          all other beings are what they are, through it, how does
 40 7  |         through another, as to how they exist through the supreme
 41 8  |    Substance, that that from which they were created was nothing.
 42 8  |          Hence, if that from which they were created, which I supposed
 43 8  |            it created them or that they were created, we understand
 44 8  |           something, and that when they were created, they were
 45 8  |            when they were created, they were created only as something.
 46 9  |     creation, to this extent, that they were not what they now are,
 47 9  |            that they were not what they now are, nor was there anything
 48 9  |          was there anything whence they should be created, yet they
 49 9  |        they should be created, yet they were not nothing, so far
 50 9  |            and according to which, they were created.~ ~
 51 10 |           put third and last, when they concern objects well known,
 52 10 |            of an object, and where they cannot be, no other word
 53 10 |            For, without absurdity, they may also be said to be the
 54 10 |           the truer, the more like they are to the objects to which
 55 10 |            to the objects to which they correspond, and the more
 56 10 |          and the more expressively they signify these objects. For,
 57 10 |        before their creation, that they might be created; and exists,
 58 10 |      created; and exists, now that they have been created, that
 59 10 |            have been created, that they may be known through it.~ ~
 60 11 |            make its creatures what they are; while the artisan is
 61 11 |           expressions of the works they are to create differ in
 62 13 |      continue to exist, so long as they do exist, by the sustenance
 63 13 |         through whose creative act they are endowed with the existence
 64 13 |            with the existence that they have. For, by a like course
 65 13 |         another, and that by which they have been created lives
 66 15 |          better, which is not what they themselves are. For, the
 67 15 |          to which something, which they themselves are not, is superior;
 68 15 |      everything, which is not what they themselves are, is inferior.~
 69 17 |          through these things; and they are not what they are through
 70 17 |      things; and they are not what they are through it, and therefore
 71 21 |         single discussion, because they advanced on exactly the
 72 22 |        exist in space or time that they do not transcend extent
 73 22 |          places and times in which they are said to be, and (2)
 74 22 |           said to be, and (2) that they are contained by these places
 75 25 | immutability of that in whose case they occur. Hence, although the
 76 27 |       individual men the fact that they are men; does any one conceive
 77 28 |         will be, by mutation, what they are not now; or, are what
 78 28 |          are not now; or, are what they were not, or will not be,
 79 28 |      hardly a fact -- since, then, they exist in such mutability,
 80 28 |           unreasonably denied that they exist simply, and perfectly,
 81 28 |            and it is asserted that they are almost nonexistent,
 82 28 |           almost nonexistent, that they scarcely exist at all.~Again,
 83 28 |        through another; and, since they return from existence to
 84 28 |         power is concerned, unless they are sustained through another
 85 28 |    creatures are nonexistent; yet, they are not wholly non-existent,
 86 28 |           alone exists absolutely, they have been made something
 87 29 |      consubstantial with him, that they are not two spirits, but
 88 30 |            the supreme Nature that they are not two spirits, but
 89 31 |            of the objects to which they correspond; and every likeness
 90 31 |           mutable things, how were they created after its example?~
 91 34 |           beings. For, both before they were created, and now that
 92 34 |         were created, and now that they have been created, and after
 93 34 |            been created, and after they are decayed or changed in
 94 34 |     decayed or changed in any way, they are ever in him not what
 95 34 |           are ever in him not what they are in themselves, but what
 96 34 |     himself is. For, in themselves they are mutable beings, created
 97 34 |          really and excellently do they exist. Thus, it may reasonably
 98 35 |        Word life and truth, so are they in his knowledge.~ ~
 99 36 |      knowledge. For, in themselves they exist by virtue of their
100 36 |            We conclude, then, that they exist more truly in themselves
101 36 |           the same degree in which they exist more truly anywhere
102 38 |            cannot be explained why they are two, although they must
103 38 |         why they are two, although they must be so. ~OUR careful
104 38 |           simultaneously, whatever they are so exists that it is
105 38 |         far as regards either what they are substantially, or what
106 38 |    substantially, or what relation they bear to the created world,
107 38 |         bear to the created world, they ever preserve an indivisible
108 38 |            but that Word from him, they admit an ineffable plurality,
109 38 |            necessity requires that they be two, it can in no wise
110 38 |           no wise be explained why they are two.~For although they
111 38 |         they are two.~For although they may perhaps be called two
112 38 |            with reference to which they are used, it cannot be expressed
113 38 |         attributes to the one that they are by no means predicable
114 38 |            cannot be explained why they are two, the supreme Spirit
115 38 |         certain properties of each they are required to be two.
116 39 |            those things from which they derive existence, although
117 39 |         derive existence, although they possess no such likeness
118 39 |           to those things of which they are said to be born, as
119 43 |            altogether evident that they are two; yet that which
120 43 |           most obscure mystery why they are two. For, in such a
121 43 |            I do not understand why they are two of whom I have spoken.~
122 43 |           is not attributed, since they are not properties of two
123 43 |           other; so harmonious are they in nature, that the one
124 43 |          essence of the other. For they are so diverse by virtue
125 43 |            the Son the Father; and they are so identical, by virtue
126 44 |     existence from the Father that they are not two essences, subsists,
127 44 |           in order to indicate how they share in an essence supremely
128 54 |             but from that in which they are one. For, not from their
129 57 |             as are Father and Son, they are not regarded as the
130 62 |           in himself -- that, when they express one another, the
131 63 |            is already certain that they truly exist, are not three
132 63 |            of the others; yet what they are is in such a way one
133 64 |       their own natural sublimity, they do not admit of explanation.~
134 64 |        cogent grounds, even though they cannot be so examined by
135 65 |          by no means that in which they are applied to other natures.~
136 65 |          express with precision as they are; but by another expression
137 72 |          held regarding these? Are they mortal or immortal? But
138 73 |         that for the love of which they were created, that they
139 73 |            they were created, that they deserve to enjoy it at some
140 73 |            as so scorning it, that they deserve ever to stand in
141 78 |      cannot, in one word, show why they are three; as if I should
142 78 |       wishes to express to any why they are three, he will say that
143 78 |            three, he will say that they are Father and Son and the
144 78 |     accidents, and for this reason they more properly receive the