Chapter 22
361 | Text and Translation Chapter 22 That he alone is what he is and who he is You alone, then, lord, are what you are and you are who you are. For what is one thing as a whole and another in its parts, and in which there is something mutable, is not altogether what it is. And what began from nonexistence, and can be thought not to be, and returns to not being unless it subsists through some other; and what has a past which is no longer, and a future which is not yet—it does not exist properly and absolutely. But you are what you are, since whatever you are at any time or in any way, this you are wholly and always.
And you are the one who is, properly and simply; for you have neither past nor future but only present existence, nor can you be thought not to be at any time. And you are life and light and wisdom and beatitude and eternity and many goods of this kind, and yet you are nothing but the one and supreme good; you, altogether sufficient unto yourself, needing no one, but whom all need for their being and well-being.
362 |I PROSLOGION
CAPITULUM XXIII
Quod hoc bonum sit pariter Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus: et hoc sit unum necessarium, quod est omne et totum et solum bonum Hoc bonum es tu, Deus Pater; hoc est Verbum tuum, id est Filius tuus. Etenim non potest aliud quam quod es, aut aliquid maius vel minus te esse in Verbo, quo te ipsum dicis; quoniam Verbum tuum sic est verum, quomodo tu verax, et idcirco est ipsa Veritas sicut tu, non alia quam tu; et sic es tu simplex, ut de te non possit nasci aliud quam quod tu es.
Hoc ipsum est Amor unus et communis tibi et Filio tuo, id est Sanctus Spiritus ab utroque procedens. Nam idem Amor non est impar tibi aut Filio tuo; quia tantum amas te et illum, et ille te et seipsum, quantus es tu et ille; nec est aliud a te et ab illo, quod dispar non est tibi illi; nec de summa simplicitate potest procedere aliud, quam quod est de quo procedit.
Quod autem est singulus quisque, hoc est tota Trinitas simul, Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus; quoniam singulus quisque non est aliud quam summe simplex unitas et summe una simplicitas, quae nec multiplicari nec aliud et aliud esse potest.
Porro unum est necessarium. Porro hoc est illud unum necessarium, in quo est omne bonum, immo quod est omne et unum et totum et solum bonum.
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