Economy Reflecting Eternity

the temporal missions of the Son and the Spirit reflect the prior eternal generation of the Son and procession of the Spirit within the Godhead. For Augustine, therefore, what takes place in eternity within the life of God constitutes the persons, not what takes place in history. The economy simply reveals what is eternally true.

 

Kevin Giles, The Eternal Generation of the Son: Maintaining Orthodoxy in Trinitarian Theology (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2012), 8