Chapter 6: On the essence and names of God in particular; singular essence common to three persons
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CHAPTER SIX.On the essence and names of God in particular.
The essence of God is a singular nature, common to the three persons.It is also called the form of God (Philippians 2:6).For although essence, nature, and form differ in the philosophers' judgment, yet according to the holy fathers in the doctrine of God these three are the same, as Damascene testifies in the Isagoge, chapter 1.Likewise also divinity (Romans 1:20).It is singular, because numerically it is so one that it is at once unique (Deuteronomy 4:35).It is common, because it equally belongs to the three persons (1 John 5:7).
Latin
SEXTUM, De essentia, & nominibus Dei in specie. Essentia Dei est natura singularis, tribus personis communis. Dicitur etiam μορφὴ Θεοῦ, forma Dei, Phil. 2.6. Etsi enim οὐσία, φύσις & μορφή, h. e. essentia, natura & forma de Philosophorum sententia differunt: tamen secundum sanctos patres in doctrina de Deo, haec tria idem sunt, teste Damasceno in Isagoge cap. 1. Essentia, natura & forma, secundum sanctos patres, idem sunt. Itemque divinitas, Rom. 1.20. Est singularis, quia numero ita est una, ut simul sit unica, Deut. 4.35. Est communis, quia aequaliter est trium personarum, 1 Joh. 5.7.