Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series

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How a Trinity is Produced by the Mind Remembering, Understanding, and Loving Itself.

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Whether Memory is Also of Things Present.

397

The Trinity in the Mind is the Image of God, in that It Remembers, Understands, and Loves God, Which to Do is Wisdom.

398

How Any One Can Forget and Remember God.

400

The Mind Loves God in Rightly Loving Itself; And If It Love Not God, It Must 401 Be Said to Hate Itself. Even a Weak and Erring Mind is Always Strong in Remembering, Understanding, and Loving Itself. Let It Be Turned to God, that It May Be Blessed by Remembering, Understanding, and Loving Him. Although the Soul Hopes for Blessedness, Yet It Does Not Remember Lost Blessedness, But Remembers God and the Rules of Righteousness. The Unchangeable Rules of Right Living are Known Even to the Ungodly.

404

How the Image of God is Formed Anew in Man.

406

How the Image of God in the Mind is Renewed Until the Likeness of God is Perfected in It in Blessedness.

408

Whether the Sentence of John is to Be Understood of Our Future Likeness with the Son of God in the Immortality Itself Also of the Body.

410

John is Rather to Be Understood of Our Perfect Likeness with the Trinity in Life Eternal. Wisdom is Perfected in Happiness.

411

He embraces in a brief compendium the contents of the previous books; and 413 finally shows that the Trinity, in the perfect sight of which consists the blessed life that is promised us, is here seen by us as in a glass and in an enigma, so long as it is seen through that image of God which we ourselves are. God is Above the Mind.

414

God, Although Incomprehensible, is Ever to Be Sought. The Traces of the Trinity are Not Vainly Sought in the Creature.

415

A Brief Recapitulation of All the Previous Books.

417

What Universal Nature Teaches Us Concerning God.

420

How Difficult It is to Demonstrate the Trinity by Natural Reason.

421

How There is a Trinity in the Very Simplicity of God. Whether and How the 423 Trinity that is God is Manifested from the Trinities Which Have Been Shown to Be in Men. That It is Not Easy to Discover the Trinity that is God from the Trinities We Have Spoken of.

426

How the Apostle Says that God is Now Seen by Us Through a Glass.

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