Chapter 14 — Continuation of the foregoing

It is also clear from the foregoing that it is not prejudicial to God’s simplicity if many relations are predicated of him although they do not signify his essence, for they are consequent upon our way of understanding. For nothing hinders our intellect understanding many things, and being referred in many ways to that which is in itself simple, so as thus to consider the simple thing under a manifold relationship. And the more simple a thing is, the greater its virtue, and of so many more things is it a principle, and consequently it is understood as related in so many more ways. Thus a point is a principle of more things than a line is, and a line of more things than a surface. Therefore, the very fact that many things are said of God relatively bears witness to his supreme simplicity.