Athanasian Creed (Worcester) n. 63

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63. To make three Persons because it is said, "Father, Son and Holy Spirit," is to falsify the Word. In the Word there are appearances of truth; and if these are made to be truths actually and really, they become falsities; but otherwise, they are truths in both senses, namely, in the sense of the letter and in the spiritual sense, which sense comes from the Lord through the enlightened rational. (As was shown concerning the sun's progression and its rest, in Apocalypse Explained n. 719.) (Here let many passages be quoted where the Father and the Son are named - that they are truths in both senses, if they are viewed from doctrine; otherwise the sense of the letter is falsified.)


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