Theological Theses · §393 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

No proper difference — one simple essence

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No genus → no proper difference.

Divine nature has no graded composition.

One simple essence differs through itself from all else.

Latin

XXIII. Cum autem Deus non habeat genus, differentiam quoque proprie dictam habere non potest. Nam differentia dicitur id quod genus pluribus commune ad certam speciem contrahit. Et sic in natura divina certi gradus distingui non possunt, nec composita est ex variis gradibus; sed est una simplex essentia, quae per seipsam differt ab omnibus aliis.

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