Scriptural vocabulary of immutability; formal ratio
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It is of like power that of God it is affirmed in Psalm 102:27, But You remain.And in verse 28, But You are the same.And Malachi 3:6, I do not change.So Romans 1:23 says the incorruptible God.1 Timothy 6:16, who alone has immortality.Opposite words of power are denied of Him in James 1:17: with whom there is no change or shadow of turning.
The material in this attribute also is the same as in the rest, namely God's most eminent perfection.But its formal ratio consists in the negation of every change by which God in His essence would become other and other.For He never acquires a new perfection, nor loses that which He possesses.
Latin
Similis potentiae est, quod de Deo affirmatur Psal. CII.27. Tu autem permanes. Et 28. Tu vero idem es. Et Malach. III.6. Non mutor. Sic Rom. I.23. dicitur aphthartos Theos, incorruptibilis Deus. I Tim. VI.16. Qui solus habet immortalitatem. Oppositae potentiae voces de eo negantur Iac. I.17. Apud quem non est transmutatio aut conversionis obumbratio. Materiale etiam in hoc attributo idem est quod in caeteris, scilicet eminentissima Dei perfectio. Formalis vero illius ratio consistit in negatione omnis mutationis, per quam Deus in essentia sua aliud atque aliud fiat. Neque enim unquam novam perfectionem acquirit, neque illam quam possidet amittit.