Useful observations: Father absolutely, toward Son, toward Spirit
II. But here there are certain useful observations and rules. 1. The first person is called Father properly, not tropically.
2. The person of the Father is to be considered in three ways. Absolutely in Himself, because He is devoid of every origin, whether we regard according to essence or according to mode of subsisting. In order to the Son, whom in the common essence shining from His perfection in the Son He begets by an internal and eternal act. In order to the Holy Spirit, whom together with the Son in the common essence He spirates from the perfection both of His own and of the Sons shining in the Holy Spirit.
3. The begetting by which God the Father begot the Son from eternity differs more than in whole genus from every physical begetting. For in physical things it is transient; in divine things it is pure immanent act. Nor has place here section, or extension, or propagation and multiplication, or derivation and transfusion or effusion.
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II. Sunt autem hic quaedam utiles observationes et regulae. 1. Prima persona proprie, non tropice dicitur Pater. 2. Persona Patris tribus modis consideranda est. Absolute in sese, quia est omnis originis expers, sive spectemus secundum essentiam, sive secundum subsistendi modum. In ordine ad Filium, quem in communi essentia ex perfectione sua splendentem in Filio gignit actu interno et aeterno. In ordine ad Spiritum sanctum, quem una cum Filio in communi essentia spirat ex perfectione tum sua, tum Filii resplendente in Spiritu sancto. 3. Genitura, qua Deus Pater Filium ab aeterno genuit, plusquam toto genere differt ab omni genitura physica. Nam in rebus physicis est transiens, in divinis purus actus immanens. Neque in his locum habet sectio, vel extensio, vel propagatio et multiplicatio, vel derivatio et transfusio aut effusio.