“Whether we hear then ‘Show us the Son,’ or whether we hear ‘Show us the Father,‘ it comes to the same thing, because neither can be shown without the other.
They are indeed one, as He tells us, ‘I and the Father are one’ (John 10:30).
In a word, because of this inseparability, it makes no difference whether sometimes the Father alone or sometimes the Son alone is mentioned as the one who is to fill us with delight at His countenance.
Nor is the Spirit of each separable from this unity, the Father’s Spirit, that is, and the Son’s, the Holy Spirit which is given the proper name of the Spirit of truth, which this world cannot receive (John 14:17).
For the fullness of our happiness, beyond which there is none else, is this: to enjoy God the Three in whose image we were made.”
-Augustine of Hippo, The Trinity, trans. Edmund Hill, (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century), Volume 5 (Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 1991), 81. (1.2.17-18)
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