1.—Since the nature of God is manifested to the limited comprehension of man, man is aware in the unity of the divine nature of a manifold of attributes of God. “The essential properties of God are the divine attributes, by which the truth of the divine essence is both known in itself and distinguished from all other essences” (POLAN II, 7). The divine attributes are not something different from the nature and existence of God, so that the latter may be thought of
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