What is the relation in being between God and the world he created? Is it the case that everything came forth from the One, like the school of Plato says?
Only God is one and therefore unchangeable. From this everything which is good is created, but not being one and therefore changeable.
They are created, not emanated. Because what is begotten from the one good, is one too and identical; these two we call the Father and the Son, and they are together with their Spirit, called the Holy Spirit, which is not identical with the Father nor with the Son, but likewise one and unchangeable, one God.
The trinity of God is distinct (though the same), not a singularity; but inseparable. Other things can be deprived of what they are grouped with; but the trinity in God is what it is with.
Therefore we only call that one, which is divine, because in it quality and substance are one; and because it does not need any quality from outside.
The wisdom with which God created the world is likewise one, but called 'manifold' because it contains many things, all the invisible and unchangeable reasons with which the visible and changeable things were made.
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