Peter Lombard
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"Peter Lombard" at workInitial C/of the prologue-Sentences/Sententiae

"Peter Lombard", "Peter the Lombard", "Pierre Lombard" or "Petrus Lombardus", was a scholasticism/scholastic theologian, Bishop of Paris, and author of Sentences/Four Books of Sentences, which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he earned the scholastic accolade/accolade Magister Sententiarum.

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He begot a God, who is not God the Father, that is God the Son, who (as) Son is not the Father, who is God; here the sense is true.

But against this it is thus opposed: the Will of God is the Nature or the Essence of God, because for God the "to be" is not one thing, "to will" the other; and for that reason, just as there is one Essence of Three Persons, so also one Will. Therefore if God by nature is God, He is also by will God; and if the Word of God by nature is the Son of God, He is also by will the Son of God.

Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge. But the mind is here accepted not for the soul, but for that which is the more excellent in the soul. But these three, though they be distinct from one another, are, however, said to be one, because they exist substantially in the soul.