truth: (b) the mystery of the trinity are far from reaching down into the depths of either principle : their deepest depths escape us and it would be a bold man who would dogmatise as to their uttermost possibilities; (2) it at least suggests to us that the total expression of one nature in one person which is in us is not the only possibility. Person may be seen as the “centre of attribution in a rational nature” — that to which the actions of a rational nature are attributed. In an infinite nature, might there not be more than one such centre of attribution? Is the idea of one single mind and one single will three times focused totally self-contradictory? No one dare affirm that there is any such contradiction. The mind of man may say, “I cannot see the possibility”: it dare not say, “I see the contradiction.” To the mind thus faltering comes the revelation of God that it is so : and contained within the revelation are certain truths which help the mind to progress in it. God has not simply revealed to us a handful of words. The Three Persons — the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost — each" possess the one Diyine nature : they do not share it: they each posses it in ite totafity, It is important to grasp exactly what this means. Men, we say, have one nature, in the sense that they all are human and human nature is one thing. But though Brown and I are of one nature, I cannot think with Brown’s mind nor love with Brown’s will. I must think with my own mind and love with my own will. So that, although in a general sense human nature 83