Annotation LXXXVIII

”The lord says to his steward,” etc. — Matthew 20:8

On the Trinity.

The author of the Opus imperfectum, homily 34 on Matthew, writes that the Father and the Son are neither of the same dignity nor of the same substance, in these words: “He says to his steward. To what steward? Without doubt the Son says [it] to the Holy Spirit. And, if you wish, I grant to you that the Father says [it] to the Son. I do not inquire whether the Son is the Father’s steward, or the Holy Spirit the Son’s; but this I say — that a steward of the house and the householder cannot be of the same substance, nor be one person, nor [of] equal dignity. If, therefore, the one is [the] householder, the other the householder’s steward: how can your ‘Trinity’ have place? But if this [steward] is of the same substance, and is [yet] less, he does injury to the substance; but if [there is] not equal dignity, where is [there] one substance?”