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"Adam was not yet at the beginning what he could be and had to become at the end. He lived in Paradise, but not yet in heaven."

"Animals are symbols of our virtues and vices: the dog shows us the image of loyalty, the spider of industry, the lion of courage, the sheep of innocence, the dove of integrity, the deer of the soul thirsting for God, the fox of cunning, the worm of misery, the tiger of cruelty, the swine of baseness, the snake of devilish guile..."

Intriguing

"From the very moment that the world in its entirety or each of its creatures was called into being by the creative act of God, they immediately come under the surveillance of God's providence... Providence goes hand in hand with creation: the two are companion pieces."

Finished his chapter on the Trinity. Excellent and orthodox. He argues that opera ad extra reflects ad intra eternal relations of origin.

"To that order of existence in the divine being the order of the three persons in all divine work corresponds. The Father is he from whom, the Son is he through whom, and the Spirit is he in whom all things are."

"as we study the trinity, we are not dealing with a Doctrine about god, with an abstract concept, or with a scientific proposition about the nature of divinity. We are not dealing with a human construction which we ourselves or which others have put upon the facts, and which we now try to analyze and logically to dismember. Rather in treating of the trinity, we are dealing with God himself."

"He is simple, not composite, holy free of all compounding of spirit and matter, thought and extent, being and properties, reason and will, and light components, and all that he has also is pure truth in life and Light."

"for the love in God is independent, unchangeable, simple, eternal, and omnipresent. It does not depend upon us nor is aroused by us, but flows, free and pure, from the depths of the Divine being.

"The function of the confessions or Creeds is not to push the scriptures into the background, but rather to maintain them and to protect them against individual caprice."

"The confessions do not impede the growth and knowledge but keep it in the right course of development, and they are themselves to be checked and revised against the holy scriptures as the only norm of faith."

I think he plagiarized Barcellos: "for every translation, after all, is really a kind of interpretation."