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" relations exist in God really; in proof whereof we may consider that in relations alone is found something which is only in the apprehension. . . . This is not found in any other genus; forasmuch as other genera, as quantity and quality, in their strict and proper meaning, signify something inherent in a subject. But relation in its own proper meaning signifies only what relates to another/' "Now whatever has an accidental existence in creatures, when considered as transferred to God, has a substantial existence/ 5 Summa Theologica, Qs. 27-49,