Abstrakt: | Although Apponius’ Expositio in Canticum Canticorum refers directly to one
of the books of the Old Testament, by dint of the allegorical exegesis used by it’s
author, we can find there many New Testament subjects and theological problems.
It also contains knowledge about the Holy Trinity. In the article there were used
quotations about the Holy Trinity (from books I-III), one can find either the very
noun “Trinity” (Trinitas) or individual Persons in the Holy Trinity: the Father,
the Son and the Spirit, yet having relations with each other. In the first part of the
article there were analyzed attributes, which are used by Apponius to describe the
nature of the Holy Trinity: inseparabilis, individua, coaeterna Trinitas. The specified
attributes of the Holy Trinity get to the core of the Christian dogma about God
and combine with the faith and baptism. God is one, indivisible, acting with a one
divine power, but eternally existing in three Persons. In the second part of the
article, the relations occurring in the Trinity were presented. Apponius’ Trinitas is
the three Persons in God: the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The Persons in the
Trinity are in two kinds of relations: occurring between the Persons of the Holy
Trinity (the immanent Trinity) and going beyond the Trinity into the world and
human beings (the economic Trinity). Apponius using the language of symbols,
metaphors and analogies, reminds the fundamental truths about God. By description
of the attributes of the Holy Trinity he emphasizes the unity of God, and by
the description of the relations – the trinity of the Persons. |