Chapter 20: On God's figurative attributes; rule of reduction
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CHAPTER TWENTY.On Gods figurative attributes.
Thus far were Gods proper attributes: there follow figurative ones, which are predicated of God by trope.But these are to be resolved and reduced to the proper, according to the rule: An improper locution ought to be resolved into a proper one, which is its standard and basis.
II.And some are metonymic, some ironic, some metaphoric, and finally some synecdochic.
Latin
CAPUT VICESIMUM, De attributis Dei figuratis. Hactenus fuerunt attributa Dei propria: sequuntur figurata, quae per tropum de Deo praedicantur. Haec autem resolvenda et reducenda sunt ad propria, secundum regulam: Locutio impropria resolvi debet in propriam, quae illius norma est et mensura. II. Suntque alia metonymica, alia ironica, alia metaphorica, alia denique synecdochica.