Question 40 — Persons Compared to Relations or Properties

We now consider the persons in connection with the relations, or properties; and there are four points of inquiry:

(1) Whether relation is the same as person?

• (2) Whether the relations distinguish and constitute the persons?
• (3) Whether mental abstraction of the relations from the persons leaves the hypostases distinct?
• (4) Whether the relations, according to our mode of understanding, presuppose the acts of the persons, or contrariwise?