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Living, Holy, Beautiful, Good, Loving, Glorious, Terrible.
Avenger, because it is from Him alone that emanate and flow
the qualities of knowledge, power, life, holiness, beauty and
the rest. God has no attributes in the sense we understand
them. With us an attribute or a property is common to many
individuals of a species, but what is God's is His alone, and
there is none other to share it with Him. When we say,
"Solomon is wise, powerful, just and beautiful," we do not
ascribe exclusively to him all wisdom, power, justice and
beauty. We only mean to say that he is relatively wise as
compared with others of his species, and that wisdom too is
relatively his attribute in common with the individuals belong-
ing to his class.
To make it more clear, a divine attribute is an emana-
tion of God, and therefore an activity. Now every divine
action is nothing more or less than a creation.
Avenger, because it is from Him alone that emanate and flow
the qualities of knowledge, power, life, holiness, beauty and
the rest. God has no attributes in the sense we understand
them. With us an attribute or a property is common to many
individuals of a species, but what is God's is His alone, and
there is none other to share it with Him. When we say,
"Solomon is wise, powerful, just and beautiful," we do not
ascribe exclusively to him all wisdom, power, justice and
beauty. We only mean to say that he is relatively wise as
compared with others of his species, and that wisdom too is
relatively his attribute in common with the individuals belong-
ing to his class.
To make it more clear, a divine attribute is an emana-
tion of God, and therefore an activity. Now every divine
action is nothing more or less than a creation.