 Suárez maintains instead that God is not simply and in fact more perfect than all other beings: he is more perfect in so far as he is the first principle or origin of all the perfections of all other beings. To be the first principle or origin of another is not just to be more perfect than every other thing: a first principle must additionally be more perfect in a determinate way than the perfections of the beings for whose perfections he serves as an origin. This determinate way of being perfect Suárez labels ‘eminent’.