4. Who cannot see that there are pure contradictions which are thence repeated - and there are several of these. Thus things are to be believed which can never be seen by faith and comprehended. But such people are so far to be excused since they draw those things from the sense of the letter of the Word. The spiritual sense was not yet known, nor did they know that it existed. Wherefore, there has been disclosed the spiritual sense through which it is granted to know why the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are named, and, it is, indeed, because the Father signifies the Divine Itself, the Son the Divine Human and the Holy Spirit the Divine Proceeding.
