Aquinas's own doctrine of divine simplicity entails that no real distinctions obtain within the divine essence, making relational qua-objects internal to that essence formally incoherent.

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Aquinas: Thomas Aquinas was a medieval Italian priest and philosopher (1225-1274) who became one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. He attempted to show that Christian faith and human reason are compatible, arguing that we can use logic and observation to understand God and the natural world. His ideas deeply shaped Catholic theology and continue to influence how religious and secular institutions think about ethics, knowledge, and the relationship between science and belief.
Doctrine(refers to the teachings being passed down): A set of beliefs or principles that a philosopher or group teaches and believes to be true.
Real distinctions(metaphysics): Differences between things that actually exist in reality, not just in how we think about them. For example, the difference between your mind and your body would be a real distinction if they're actually separate things.
divine essence(Mersenne's Second Objections to Descartes): A genuine, coherent nature or essence corresponding to the concept of God, whose reality is a precondition for ontological arguments

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