# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0177 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0177?run=74 # Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40) # Folio 105, page id 727097563:0177 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=727097563&page=177 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/727097563/jpgs/default/00000177.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 34 lines, status machine # Lines: 34 recognised, mean confidence 0.92 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. A heie M the Doctrine of the Trinicy. vided; but re lay, ther are and must be distinsuished as to those incommunicable Proverties which malie the Pertons di Cinet. The essential Properties are unca- pable ot beine divided, andthe Relations cannot becontounded; (o thac there must De one undivided Substance and y et three distinet Perlons. But every Person must have his oon pro- per Substance: and so the Substance must be divided is tbere be three Persons. That every Perlon must have a Substance 10 suppore his Sublictence is not deniec, but ehe queltion is, Whecher that substance must bedividedor not. Welar, Where the Subltance Will bear it, 25 in created BC. iB9S, a Person hach a separate subctance, i. e. the Tame Nature diversitied by AC cidents, ualities and a separate Lxiltence, but ihere chele chines cannot be, thereu the same Essence must remain undivided Dur wich such relative Properties a5 can not be contounded. But may not the same undivided Substance be communicated t0 three divided Persons; so as that each Per- son may have his oon proper Substance, and vet the divine Psence be in it self undivi- ded: Thisisnotthe cale betore uS. FOr the queltion uxon the Crecd is, Whecher the Substanee can be dirided. And bero