"For the Son of God and the Spirit of God, like twin rays from the sun, a twin-flowing river from one source, or two flowers that happen to demonstrate the Spirit and the Son jointly and manifestly associate with the common cause from which the second comes, bearing the second only as the cause, not sharing in anything else, in such a way that it shows the Spirit and the Son as co-existing and conjoined in the perspective of the common cause, from which they share the second."
What does he mean by the second? Also, is it me or is it supposed to repeat the same overall thing multiple times?
I would lie to you if I said that I know. But what I do know is that many church fathers used light analogy in order to explain the Trinity. Common light is the source of these two lights, second light shines forth and manifests this last light, and that is how they relate to each other. Father is the origin of both, Spirit is proceeding from the Father and receiving of or from the Son energies/attributes that Son has received from the Father John 16:13-14.
Regarding of repeating, I may have copied it incorrectly, also sometimes PG repeats same page multiple times, I was not really paying attention. Will try to fix those errors (if there are any), thank you for notifying me!
This is very good introduction on monoarchal trinitarianism.
"For the Son of God and the Spirit of God, like twin rays from the sun, a twin-flowing river from one source, or two flowers that happen to demonstrate the Spirit and the Son jointly and manifestly associate with the common cause from which the second comes, bearing the second only as the cause, not sharing in anything else, in such a way that it shows the Spirit and the Son as co-existing and conjoined in the perspective of the common cause, from which they share the second."
What does he mean by the second? Also, is it me or is it supposed to repeat the same overall thing multiple times?
I would lie to you if I said that I know. But what I do know is that many church fathers used light analogy in order to explain the Trinity. Common light is the source of these two lights, second light shines forth and manifests this last light, and that is how they relate to each other. Father is the origin of both, Spirit is proceeding from the Father and receiving of or from the Son energies/attributes that Son has received from the Father John 16:13-14.
Regarding of repeating, I may have copied it incorrectly, also sometimes PG repeats same page multiple times, I was not really paying attention. Will try to fix those errors (if there are any), thank you for notifying me!