Augustine, NPNF1 Vol. 3, On the Holy Trinity; Doctrinal Treatises; Moral Treatises
Philip Schaff (editor)
Number of quotes: 5
Book ID: 159 Page: 17
Section: 3C1
Book I.1.11. The following dissertation concerning the Trinity, as the reader ought to be informed, has been written in order to guard against the sophistries of those who disdain to begin with faith, and are deceived by a crude and perverse love of reason.
Quote ID: 3396
Time Periods: 5
Book ID: 159 Page: 19
Section: 3C1
Book I.2.4…the Trinity is the one and only and true God, and also how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are rightly said, believed, understood, to be of one and the same substance or essence; …
Quote ID: 3397
Time Periods: 5
Book ID: 159 Page: 20
Section: 3C1
Book 1.4.7All those Catholic expounders of the divine Scriptures, both Old and New, whom I have been able to read, who have written before me concerning the Trinity, Who is God, have purposed to teach, according to the Scriptures, this doctrine, that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit intimate a divine unity of one and the same substance in an indivisible equality; {3} and therefore that they are not three Gods, but one God: although the Father hath begotten the Son, and so He who is the Father is not the Son; and the Son is begotten by the Father, and so He who is the Son is not the Father; and the Holy Spirit is neither the Father nor the Son, but only the Spirit of the Father and of the Son, Himself also co-equal with the Father and the Son, and pertaining to the unity of the Trinity.
Quote ID: 3398
Time Periods: 5
Book ID: 159 Page: 23
Section: 3C1
Book I.6.12And the apostle has not refrained from using the very word itself, but has said most expressly, “Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God”; using here the name of God specially of the Father; as elsewhere, “But the head of Christ is God.”
Pastor John notes: John’s note: That is a KJV translation, 1200 years later than Augustine. Did he influence the KJV?
Quote ID: 3399
Time Periods: 5
Book ID: 159 Page: iii
Section: 3C1
…the Orations against the Arians, by Athanasius, “the Father of Orthodoxy,” …Preface, iii
Quote ID: 3395
Time Periods: 45
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