To clarify, while God’s love “adds to us,” our love adds nothing to him.44 Therefore, “though he requires our love, he is not benefited by it” (Job 22:2–3; 35:5–8; Rom. 11:35). Here Owen is simply applying the Reformed doctrine of divine aseity, the belief that God does not need us, either ontologically or relationally, but is eternal, self-existent, and self-sufficient (Acts 17:24–25). In other words, before the foundation of the world God was not lonely, but in the triune Godhead each person enjoyed