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"Animals are symbols of our virtues and vices: the dog shows us the image of loyalty, the spider of industry, the lion of courage, the sheep of innocence, the dove of integrity, the deer of the soul thirsting for God, the fox of cunning, the worm of misery, the tiger of cruelty, the swine of baseness, the snake of devilish guile..."

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"From the very moment that the world in its entirety or each of its creatures was called into being by the creative act of God, they immediately come under the surveillance of God's providence... Providence goes hand in hand with creation: the two are companion pieces."

Finished his chapter on the Trinity. Excellent and orthodox. He argues that opera ad extra reflects ad intra eternal relations of origin.

"To that order of existence in the divine being the order of the three persons in all divine work corresponds. The Father is he from whom, the Son is he through whom, and the Spirit is he in whom all things are."

"as we study the trinity, we are not dealing with a Doctrine about god, with an abstract concept, or with a scientific proposition about the nature of divinity. We are not dealing with a human construction which we ourselves or which others have put upon the facts, and which we now try to analyze and logically to dismember. Rather in treating of the trinity, we are dealing with God himself."