the Holy Trinity

but I know and confess one God, glorified in three persons — the Father, I mean, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit — yet in one nature and essence, in one glory and kingdom undivided.

to come near to the contemplation of the holy and life-giving Trinity, and to be illumined by its unapproachable light,

For thus do we, illumined by light from the Father, the Son, light in the light of the Holy Spirit, glorify one Godhead in three persons;

and sometimes the wax-moulded instrument of the wise bee, and through it hints at natural contemplation, in which the account of the holy Trinity too is mingled, since from the beauty of creatures the Author of their being is contemplated by analogy.

And about the adorable and holy Trinity let so much be said by us for the present;

For to be counted worthy to meet a man who thinks the same things and holds the faith of the fathers — as the report of our honoured brothers and fellow-presbyters has it — is truly to return to the ancient blessedness of the churches, when those who were diseased about questionings were few, and all were in tranquillity, being workers of the commandments who need not be ashamed, serving the Lord …

And if the pleasure of play distracts from the pleasure of eating and the rest, and in it there is but a slight intellectual pleasure (3), how much more the pleasure that accrues with the separate substances and the piercing lights, through knowledge of their majesty and the majesty of their Creator, or of the mystery of the Holy Trinity and of the favours overflowing continually and perpetually?

and the second is about the second things, and the third about the third things," I for my part understand it in no other way than that the holy Trinity is signified: