Systematic Index

1701, 1782, 1803 f., 1891 ff., 2108, 2189, 3005; He did not begin at the same time as the world 501; He is high above all 1782.

In God various attributes are distinguished: He is simple 389, 428, 993, 1782, and immutable 254, 346, 428, 463, 703, 1701, 1782, 1804, uncreated 39, eternal 39, 254, 346, 428, 463, 703, 1782 (and He alone 391), immense 39, 428, 1782, incomprehensible 254, 428, 1782, ineffable 428, 1782, a spiritual substance 1782, happy in and of Himself 1782; there is, however, no real distinction between the nature and the attributes, nor among themselves 294, 389, 993; and on this account ought all distinction in God to be rejected 523 f.

THE RELATIONS OF GOD TO THINGS OUTSIDE HIMSELF

IV c God is infinitely intelligent 1782, knowing all things 300, 316, 321 f., 1784, even free things in the future 321, 1784, 3017, the past, present, and future by a knowledge of vision 2184, and willing in an infinitely perfect way 1782, omnipotent 1 ff., 39, 210, 316, 346, 374, 428, 461 ff., 703, 1782, with a free will in operating outside Himself 374, 706, 1655, 1783, 1805; ought not to obey the devil 586, was able to do what He did not 374.

There does not exist a twofold principle of the world, good and evil 19 ff., 29, 54, 86, 237, 343, 421, 461, 469, 706 f., 994, 1783, 1801; God is the source of all truth and power 1649; He is also one and the same in the Old and New Testament 28, 348, 421, 464, 706.

THE TRIUNE GOD

UNITY OF NATURE

V a In God there are three Persons, who nevertheless are one God 1 ff., 13, 15, 17, 19, 22 ff., 39, 42a, 48, 51, 54, 58 ff., 82 f., 201, 213, 231, 254, 275, 278 ff., 294, 296, 343, 346, 389 f., 420 f., 428, 431 f., 461, 691, 703 f., 993, 994, 1595 f., 1915; they are, namely, one nature, one essence or co-essential, one substance, or consubstantial 19, 59, 66, 74, 83, 86, 213, 254, 275, 277 ff., 343, 420, 428, 431 f., 461, 703 f., 708, 993 f.; they are coequal, coeternal, coomnipotent 13, 19, 39, 54, 68, 70, 75, 78 f., 254, 276 ff., 343, 368, 428, 461 ff., 703 f., 708; equally omnipresent, adorable, omniscient, immense, vivifying 39, 75, 79 f., 254, 703 f.; inseparable in being 48, 281, 461, in acting (creating) 19, 77, 79, 281, 284, 428, 461; one principle of operation outside 77, 254, 281, 284, 421, 428, 703, especially in effecting the Incarnation 284, 429.

THE TRINITY OF PERSONS

V b The Father is a simple and indivisible substance 432; is not made, not created, nor born, nor proceeding 3, 19, 39, 275, 345 f., nor by generating does He lose anything of His substance 432; but He has everything of Himself; He is the principle without principle 428, 703 f.; He is omnipotent 1 f., 6, 9, 13, 15, wise and benign 381, invisible, incapable of suffering, immortal, incomprehensible, immutable 3; with the Son He is the cause (according to the Greeks) or (according to the Latins) the principle of the Holy Spirit 691; He is the creator of heaven and earth 3, 6, of things visible and invisible 9, 13, 54, 86, 994.

V c The Son is God 2 ff., 13, 16 ff., 39, 49 ff., 54, 57*, 61, 68 ff., 77 ff., 86, 148, 233, 276, 461 f., 705, 708, 993 f.; consubstantial (ὁμοούσιος) with the Father 13, 54, 86, 276, 462, 708; He is not a kind of extension of the Father 66, nor a portion of Him 276; He is not created 13, 39, 48, 61, 86; but He is a principle from a principle 704, born of the nature or substance of the Father 13, 19 f., 48, 54, 69, 86, 275 f., 281, 344 ff., 432, 462, 703 f., 708, 994, and only the Father 40, 428, 703 f.; and that from eternity 214; neither by will nor necessity 276; He is His natural, not adopted Son 276; He is immutable 14, incapable of suffering 72, 344, sempiternal 276.