ABSTRACT
Belief in the doctrine of the Holy Trinity rests entirely on the revelation made by God in Holy Scripture. Intimations that distinctions of some sort exist in the divine nature may be discerned in the Old Testament, but the proof of the doctrine can only be sought in the teaching of the Gospels. To guard the truth of the unity of God, and to bear a never-failing witness to it in the midst of idolatry and polytheism, was the special function of the Jewish Church. The doctrine of the Holy Trinity must always be based on the teaching of Holy Scripture. When pass from Holy Scripture to the writers of the early Christian Church find ample proof that from the very first the doctrine of the Holy Trinity was held and believed, although the belief was what may be called an implicit and informal one.
