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It would seem clear that we must recognize in the Old Testament doctrine of the relation of God to His revelation by the creative Word and the Spirit, at least the germ of the distinctions in the Godhead afterward fully made known in the Christian revelation. And we can scarcely stop there. After all is said, in the light of the later revelation, the Trinitarian interpretation remains the most natural one of the phenomena which the older writers frankly interpreted as intimations of the Trinity; especially of those connected with the descriptions of the Angel of Jehovah no doubt, but also even of such a form of expression as meets us in the "Let us make man in our image" of Gen. 1:26, for surely verse 27: "And God created man in his own image," does not encourage us to take the preceding verse as announcing that man was to be created in the image of the angels. This is not an illegitimate reading of New Testament ideas back into the text of the Old Testament; it is only reading the text of the Old Testament under the illumination of the New Testament revelation. The Old Testament may be likened to a chamber richly furnished but dimly lighted; the introduction of light brings into it nothing which was not in it before; but it brings out into clearer view much of what is in it but was only dimly or even not at all perceived before. The mystery of the Trinity is not revealed in the Old Testament; but the mystery of the Trinity underlies the Old Testament revelation, and here and there almost comes into view. Thus the Old Testament revelation of God is not corrected by the fuller revelation which follows it, but only perfected, extended and enlarged.
B.B. Warfield from The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity

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Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity John Owen (pdf)icon
On the Trinity Augustineicon
The Trinity Charles Hodgeicon
Of Communion with God (.pdf) John Owenicon
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – Each Part in Saving Sinners James Buchananicon
The Unity of the Divine Essence in Three Persons John Calvinicon
The Trinity Loraine Boettnericon
The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity Benjamin B. Warfieldicon
Doctrine of The Trinity John Owenicon
The Divine Trinity Herman Bavinckicon
The Trinity Thomas Watsonicon
“Are there more God’s than one?” James Fisher (1753) - The Shorter Catechism Explained (Q5)icon
Of the Holy Trinity Thomas Bostonicon
“How many Persons are there in the Godhead?” James Fisher (1753) - The Shorter Catechism Explained (Q6)icon
The Triune God J. Gresham Machenicon
On the Incarnation Athanasius (with introduction by C.S. Lewis) Athanasius stood contra mundum ("against the world") in defense of the biblical doctrine of Christ. He opposed Arius when it seemed all the world would follow Arius's heresy.icon
Work of the Holy Spirit (.pdf) Abraham Kuypericon
The Divinity of the Holy Spirit and of the Son R.L Dabneyicon
On the Trinity Hilary of Poitiers (ca. 300 – 368)icon
Epistles on the Arian Heresy and the Deposition of Arius Athanasius of Alexandria (ca. 293-373)icon
The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. 329-389)icon
The Third Theological Oration: On the Son Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 335-394)icon
On Not Three Gods: To Ablabius Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 335-394)icon
The Trinity R.L. Dabneyicon
The Divinity of Christ R.L. Dabneyicon
Personal Distinctions in the Trinity R.L. Dabneyicon
How many persons are there in the Godhead? The Westminster Shorter Catechism Explainedicon
De Decretis or Defence of the Nicene Definition Athanasiusicon
Against the Arians (Contra Arianos) Athanasiusicon
Of God and of the Holy Trinity Robert Shawicon
Of A Plurality In The Godhead; Or, A Trinity Of Persons In The Unity Of The Divine Essence John Gillicon
The Trinity James P. Boyceicon
The Divine Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Francis Cheynellicon
The Holy Trinity Charles Hodgeicon
Calvin's Doctrine of the Trinity B.B. Warfieldicon
Melanchthon and Patristic Thought: The Doctrines of Christ and Grace, the Trinity, and the Creation E. P. Meijeringicon
Select treatises in controversy with the Arians, Pt. 1 Athanasiusicon
Select treatises in controversy with the Arians, Pt. 2 Athanasiusicon
Fellowship with the Trinity (.pdf) Erroll Hulseicon
OF THE UNITY OF THE GODHEAD AND THE TRINITY OF PERSONS Hugh Binningicon
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