to knowledge and most inward.—And this conception, which is the most perfect of the divine knowledge, will be a generation, positing a mode of existence in God or a second person, which is rightly called both the image of God and the Son.—Since then in God being known and existing are the same thing and since moreover the being known is actually the esse of the Son, it is necessary for the essence and existence of God and of the Son to be constituted the same.—Since also God’s knowing is active from