A MAP OF LIFE is one, in the concrete each man has his own nature and acts in it. With the Three Persons of the Trinity this is not so. There is but one Divine nature, one Divine mind, one Divine will. The three Persons each use the one mind to know with, the one will to love with. For there is but the one absolute Divine nature. Thus there are not three Gods, but one God. The Christian revelation cannot allow the faintest derogation from pure monotheism. The three Persons, then, are not separate. But they are distinct. The Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Ghost is God. But the Father is not the Son, nor the Son the Holy Ghost, nor the Holy Ghost the Father. What distinction can there be in three Persons who each possess the totality of one and the same nature? A distinction of Relations.* What then are these relations? For the relation between the First and Second Persons, the Gospels use two terms. The Second Person is the Son; and He is the Word. Both, by different approaches, bring us to the same Truth. A son proceeds from his father by generation. One of the enormous difficulties in all discussion about God is that we are forced to use human language. Having been built up by the mind of man for the expression of man’s experience, human language is necessarily inadequate for the expression of the * These relations, as we shall see, are subsistent and not, as relations are in created beings, mere accidents. 84