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THE CONCEPTION OF GOD

finite Person, as involving a self-contradiction? — is it not the difficulty of reaching the true conception of the Real Infinite?

10. Ought we not to discriminate between two vitally different meanings of this ancient word “infinite”? — which is primary and determinative, and which only derivative? Is not every Person infinite in this first and profound sense?