We have already noted that the only terms strictly suitable to distinguish the several Persons of the Trinity are those denoting their mutual relations: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Gift of both Father and Son. The Trinity is neither Father nor Son nor Gift. But the terms suitable to the Persons, taken in themselves, denote not three beings in the plural, but one, that is, the Trinity itself: Hence the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God; the Father is good,