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God is nothing but pure eternity itself. And we cannot conceive of several eternities. For if there are several eternities, they are either without or within one another. But nothing is outside eternity. Therefore, neither is there an eternity outside eternity. Similarly, if eternities are outside one another, they are in different places or times, and this is unrelated to eternity. And so there are not several eternities outside one another. And if one asserts that there are several eternities within one another, such a one ought to know that there is only one and the same eternity, however many times eternity may be replicated upon itself. ...
Therefore, as God is eternity, there are not several gods, since there is no God outside of God, nor does God in God add plurality to God. Therefore, God is always one and the same, and only one. And so when God is generated from God, the offspring is in the parent, and the parent in the offspring (namely, one God the Father and the Son), since the generated is not outside the source of the generated. And when God proceeds from God the Father and the Son, he does not proceed outside God; God (i.e. the Holy Spirit) abides in God from whom he proceeds, and there is one God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. And since this generation and procession are without beginning (otherwise, the eternity generated and the eternity proceeding have a beginning, and this is false), we neither ought nor can in any way conceive that God began to be the Father or the Son or the Holy Spirit. ...
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Therefore, as God is eternity, there are not several gods, since there is no God outside of God, nor does God in God add plurality to God. Therefore, God is always one and the same, and only one. And so when God is generated from God, the offspring is in the parent, and the parent in the offspring (namely, one God the Father and the Son), since the generated is not outside the source of the generated. And when God proceeds from God the Father and the Son, he does not proceed outside God; God (i.e. the Holy Spirit) abides in God from whom he proceeds, and there is one God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. And since this generation and procession are without beginning (otherwise, the eternity generated and the eternity proceeding have a beginning, and this is false), we neither ought nor can in any way conceive that God began to be the Father or the Son or the Holy Spirit. ...
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Anselm of Canterbury on the Triune God as eternity itself
God is nothing but pure eternity itself. And we cannot conceive of several eternities. For if there are several eternities, they are either without or within one another. But nothing is outside ete…
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