Book VI.
The question is proposed, how the apostle calls Christ “the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” And an argument is raised, whether the Father is not wisdom Himself, but only the Father of wisdom; or whether Wisdom begat Wisdom. But the answer to this is deferred for a little, while the unity and equality of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, are proved; and that we ought to believe in a Trinity, not in a threefold (triplicem) god. Lastly, that saying of Hilary is explained, eternity in the Father, appearance in the image, use in the gift.
LIBER SEXTUS. In quo proposita quaestione, quomodo dictus sit Christus ore apostolico, Dei virtus et Dei sapientia, disputatur utrum Pater non sit ipse sapientia, sed tantum sapientiae Pater, an sapientia sapientiam genuerit: et dilata paulisper solutione, probatur unitas et aequalitas Patris et Filii ac Spiritus sancti: et non Deum triplicem, sed Trinitatem credi oportere. Illud postremo loco explicatur Hilarii dictum: «Aeternitas in Patre, species in Imagine, usus in Munere.»
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