A while back, we were discussing the trinitarian n…
A while back, we were discussing the trinitarian nature of the human person, and I recently came across this excerpt which pertained to that idea and got me thinking again. Thought I’d share:
“Trinity is simple unity; it is not merged together - it is three in one…
Just in the same way, man has mind, word, and spirit; and the mind cannot be without word, nor the word without the spirit, but the three are always in one another, yet exist in themselves. The mind speaks by means of words, and the
word is manifested through the spirit.
This example shows that man bears in himself a feeble image of the ineffable prototype, the Trinity, thus demonstrating that he has been made in God’s image.
Mind is the Father, word is the Son, spirit is the Holy Spirit, as the divine fathers teach in this example, expounding the dogmatic teaching of the consubstantial and pre-existing Trinity, of one God in three Persons, thus transmitting to us the true faith as an anchor of hope. “(St. Gregory of Sinai in Writings from the Philokalia)
