In this post I will quoting from St. Augustine’s On the Holy Trinity, Book 15. All emphasis will be mine.
Chapter 25.— The Question Why the Holy Spirit is Not Begotten, and How He Proceeds from the Father AND the Son, Will Only Be Understood When We are in Bliss.
For if any belong to Him, although far duller in intellect than those, yet when they are freed from the body at the end of this life,…
The following excerpt is taken from St. Augustine’s On the Holy Trinity, Book 4. In it, the blessed saint reasons that the Father’s sending of the Son into the world is a sign and reflection of the Father’s having eternally begotten/generated the Son. Augustine takes this economic procession, e.g., the Father’s sending forth the Son to be born of a woman, as indicative of their eternal…
In this post I will cite the works of three intellectual and spiritual giants of the Faith to show how they interpreted Genesis 1:26-27, particularly verse, where God uses plural pronouns when speaking of making man in the image and likeness of God. The readers will see that these magnificent men of the Church took the plural as proof that the Trinity created mankind in their image and likeness.…