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De Trinitate

IV.

[IV 7] Omnes quos legere potui qui ante me scripserunt de trinitate quae deus est, divinorum librorum veterum et novorum catholici tractatores, hoc intenderunt secundum scripturas docere, quod pater et filius et spiritus sanctus unius substantiae inseparabili aequalitate divinam insinuent unitatem, ideoque non sint tres dii sed unus deus - quamvis pater filium genuerit, et ideo filius non sit qui pater est; filiusque a patre sit genitus, et ideo pater non sit qui filius est; spiritusque sanctus nec pater sit nec filius, sed tantum patris et filii spiritus, patri et filio etiam ipse coaequalis et ad trinitatis pertinens unitatem. Non tamen eandem trinitatem natam de virgine Maria et sub Pontio Pilato crucifixam et sepultam tertio die resurrexisse et in caelum ascendisse, sed tantummodo filium. Nec eandem trinitatem descendisse in specie columbae super Iesum baptizatum aut die pentecostes post ascensionem domini sonitu facto de caelo quasi ferretur flatus vehemens et linguis divisis velut ignis, sed tantummodo spiritum sanctum. Nec eandem trinitatem dixisse de caelo: Tu es filius meus, sive cum baptizatus est a Iohanne sive in monte quando cum illo erant tres discipuli, aut quando sonuit vox dicens: Et clarificavi et iterum clarificabo, sed tantummodo patris vocem fuisse ad filium factam - quamvis pater et filius et spiritus sanctus sicut inseparabiles sunt, ita inseparabiliter operentur.

Haec et mea fides est, quando haec est catholica fides.

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The Fifteen Books of Aurelius Augustinus, Bishop of Hippo, on the Trinity

Chapter 4.--What the Doctrine of the Catholic Faith is Concerning the Trinity.

7. All 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; ¹ 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. Yet not that this Trinity was born of the Virgin Mary, and crucified under Pontius Pilate, and buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven, but only the Son. Nor, again, that this Trinity descended in the form of a dove upon Jesus when He was baptized; ² nor that, on the day of Pentecost, after the ascension of the Lord, when "there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind," ³ the same Trinity "sat upon each of them with cloven tongues like as of fire," but only the Holy Spirit. Nor yet that this Trinity said from heaven, "Thou art my Son," ⁴ whether when He was baptized by John, or when the three disciples were with Him in the mount, ⁵ or when the voice sounded, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again;" ⁶ but that it was a word of the Father only, spoken to the Son; although the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, as they are indivisible, so work indivisibly. ⁷ This is also my faith, since it is the Catholic faith.