Chapter 54 — That such relations do not inhere accidentally

These relations cannot inhere in God accidentally, both because the operations on which the relations follow are the very substance of God, and also because, as was shown above, there can be no accident in God. Hence, if the relations are really in God, they cannot be accidentally inherent, but must be subsistent. How it is that what is an accident in other things can exist substantially in God, is clear from what has been previously set forth.