Eternal Generation (4)

I have thought it better not to touch on various topics, which could have yielded little profit, while they must have needlessly burdened and fatigued the reader. For instance, what avails it to discuss, as Lombard does at length (lib. 1 dist. 9), whether or not the Father always generates? This idea of continual generation becomes an absurd fiction from the moment it is seen, that from eternity there were three persons in one God.
John Calvin
Institutes, Book 1 Chapter 13

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John Calvin Eternal Generation Trinity

the [eternal] generation of the Son: It is that eternal and necessary act of the first person in the Trinity, whereby He, within the divine Being, is the ground of a second personal subsistence like His own, and puts this second person in possession of the whole divine essence, without any division, alienation, or change.

Systematic Theology, 94

Louis Berkhof

Trinity Eternal Generation

While he was the first to explain the relation of the Father to the Son by employing the idea of eternal generation, he defined this so as to involve the subordination of the Second Person to the First in respect to essence... this... afforded a stepping-stone for Arius.

The History of Christian Doctrines (84)

Louis Berkhof

Eternal Generation Origen

let us say that the Son was born from the Father before all time, and is forever being born from the Father, but, more fittingly, is forever born.

The Sentences, Book 1, D-IX, 8.

Peter Lombard

Eternal Generation