end, are apprehended as in ever-during becoming, and nevertheless are still absolutely completed in every moment of eternity. “Nec Deus pater ita generat,” say our dogmatists in the words of Gregory of Nazianzen, “ut nondum perfecte generarit, neque ita generavit Filium ut generare desierit.” And in a similar sense they call the processio Spiritus Sancti, œterna et permanens. It is a process of everlasting becoming without resting, and yet, moreover, of everlasting completion without deficiency;