Early Church Fathers Chapter 3.-Why the Son Chiefly is Intimated
in the Scriptures by the Name of Wisdom, While Both the Father
and the Holy Spirit are Wisdom. That the Holy Spirit, Together
with the Father and the Son, is One Wisdom. Chapter 6.-Why We Do
Not in the Trinity Speak of One Person, and Three Essences. What
He Ought to Believe Concerning the Trinity Who Does Not Receive
What is Said Above. Man is Both After the Image, and is the
Image of God. The question is explained, which had been deferred
in the previous book, viz. That god the father, who begat the
son, his power and wisdom, is not only the father of power and
wisdom, but also himself power and wisdom; and similarly the
holy spirit: yet that there are not three powers or three
wisdoms, but one power and one wisdom, as there is one god and
one essence. Inquiry is then made, why the latins say one
essence, three persons, in god; but the greeks, one essence,
three substances or hypostases: and both modes of expression are
shown to arise from the