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73. Lastly, that you may know that it is not a syllable which prejudices faith, but faith which commends a syllable, Paul also speaks in Christ. Christ is not less, because Paul spoke in Christ, as you find: “We speak before God in Christ.”10961096 2 Cor. ii. 17. As, then, the Apostle says that we speak in Christ, so, too, is that which we speak in the Spirit; as the Apostle himself said: “No man saith Lord Jesus, except in the Holy Spirit.”10971097 1 Cor. xii. 3. So, then, in this place not any subjection of the Holy Spirit, but a connection of grace is signified.
74. And that you may know that distinction does not depend upon a syllable, he says also in another place: “And these indeed were you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.”10981098 1 Cor. vi. 11. How many instances of this I can bring forward. For it is written: “Ye are all one in Christ Jesus,”10991099 Gal. iii. 28. and elsewhere: “To those sanctified in Christ Jesus,”11001100 1 Cor. i. 2. and again: “That we might be the righteousness of God in Him,”11011101 2 Cor. v. 21. and in another place: “Should fall from the chastity which is in Christ Jesus.”11021102 2 Cor. xi. 3.
75. But what am I doing? For while I say that like things are written of the Son as of the Spirit, I am rather leading on to this, not that because it is written of the Son, therefore it would appear to be reverently written of the Holy Spirit, but that because the same is written of the Spirit, therefore men allege that the Son’s honour is lessened because of the Spirit. For say they, Is it written of God the Father?
76. But let them learn that it is also said of God the Father: “In the Lord I will praise the word;”11031103 Ps. lvi. [lv.] 4. and elsewhere: “In God we will do mighty deeds;”11041104 Ps. lx. [lix.] 12. and “My remembrance shall be ever in Thee;”11051105 Ps. lxxi. [lxx.] 6. and “In Thy Name will we rejoice;”11061106 Ps. lxxxix. [lxxxviii.] 16. and again in another place: “That his deeds may be manifested, that they are wrought in God;”11071107 S. John iii. 21. and Paul: “In God Who created all things;”11081108 Eph. iii. 9. and again: “Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the Church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ;”11091109 2 Thess. i. 2. and in the Gospel: “I in the Father and the Father in Me,” and “the Father that dwelleth in Me.”11101110 S. John xiv. 10. It is also written: “He that glorieth let him glory in the Lord;”11111111 2 Cor. x. 17. and in another place: “Our life is hid with Christ in God.”11121112 Col. iii. 3. Did he here ascribe more to the Son than to the Father in saying that we are with Christ in God? or does our state avail more than the grace of the Spirit, so that we can be with Christ and the Holy Spirit cannot? And when Christ wills to be with us, as He Himself said: “Father, I will that they whom Thou hast given Me be with Me where I am,”11131113 S. John xvii. 24. would He disdain to be with the Spirit? For it is written: “Ye coming together and my spirit with the power of the Lord Jesus.”11141114 1 Cor. v. 4. Do we then come together in the power of the Lord, and dare to say that the Lord Jesus would not be willing to come together with the Spirit Who does not disdain to come together with us?
78. What, then, moves you to say that to God the Father or to His Christ there is glory, life, greatness, or power, in the Holy Spirit, and to refuse to say with the Holy Spirit? Is it that you are afraid of seeming to join the Spirit with the Father and the Son? But hear what is written of the Spirit: “For the law of the Spirit is life in Christ Jesus.”11151115 Rom. viii. 2. And in another place God the Father says: “They shall worship Thee, and in Thee they shall make supplication.”11161116 Isa. xlv. 14 [LXX.]. God the Father says that we ought to pray in Christ; and do you think that it is any derogation to the Spirit if the glory of Christ is said to be in Him?
12579. Hear that what you are afraid to acknowledge of the Spirit, the Apostle did not fear to claim for himself; for he says: “To be dissolved and to be with Christ is much better.”11171117 Phil. i. 23. Do you deny that the Spirit, through Whom the Apostle was made worthy of being with Christ, is with Christ?
80. What, then, is the reason that you prefer saying that God or Christ is glorified in the Spirit rather than with the Spirit? Is it because if you say in the Spirit, the Spirit is declared to be less than Christ? Although your making the Lord greater or less is a matter which can be refuted, yet since we read, “For Christ was made sin for us, that we might be the righteousness of God in Him,”11181118 2 Cor. v. 21. He is found chiefest in Whom we are found most low. So, too, elsewhere you read, “For in Him all things consist,”11191119 Col. i. 17. that is, in His power. And the things which consist in Him cannot be compared to Him, because they receive from His power the substance whereby they consist.
81. Do you then understand that God so reigns in the Spirit that the power of the Spirit, as a kind of source of substance, imparts to God the origin of His rule? But this is impious. And so our predecessors11201120 See St. Basil, De Sp. Sancto, III. 29. spoke of the unity of power of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, when they said that the glory of Christ was with the Spirit, that they might declare their inseparable connection.
82. For how is the Holy Spirit separated from the Son, since “the Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit that we are sons of God, and if sons, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God and joint-heirs with Christ.”11211121 Rom. viii. 16, 17. Who, then, is so foolish as to wish to dissever the eternal conjunction of the Spirit and Christ, when the Spirit by Whom we are made joint-heirs with Christ conjoins even what is severed.
83. “If so be,” he says, “we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.”11221122 Rom. viii. 16, 17. If we then shall be glorified together with Christ through the Spirit, how do we refuse to admit that the Spirit Himself is glorified together with Christ? Do we dissociate the life of Christ and of the Holy Spirit when the Spirit says that we shall live together with the Son of God? For the Apostle says: “If we be dead with Christ we believe that we shall also live with Him;” and then again: “For if we suffer with Him we shall also live with Him, and not only shall we live with Him, but shall be also glorified with Him, and not only be glorified but shall also reign with Him.”11231123 2 Tim. ii. 11, 12.
84. No division, then, is implied in those particles, for each is a particle of conjunction. And lastly, we often find in holy Scripture the one inserted and the other understood, as it is written: “I will enter into Thy house in whole burnt-offerings,”11241124 Ps. lxvi. [lxv.] 13. that is, “with whole burnt-offerings;” and in another place: “He brought them forth in silver and gold,”11251125 Ps. cv. [civ.] 37. that is, “with silver and gold.” And elsewhere the Psalmist says: “Wilt Thou not go forth with us in our hosts?”11261126 Ps. xliv. [xliii.] 10. for that which is really meant, “with our hosts.” So, then, in the use of the expression no lessening of honour can be implied, and nothing ought to be deduced derogatory to the honour of the Godhead, it is necessary that with the heart man should believe unto righteousness, and that out of the faith of the heart confession should be made in the mouth unto salvation. But they who believe not with the heart spread what is derogatory with their mouth.
1095 S. Matt. xxviii. 19.
1096 2 Cor. ii. 17.
1097 1 Cor. xii. 3.
1098 1 Cor. vi. 11.
1100 1 Cor. i. 2.
1101 2 Cor. v. 21.
1102 2 Cor. xi. 3.
1103 Ps. lvi. [lv.] 4.
1104 Ps. lx. [lix.] 12.
1105 Ps. lxxi. [lxx.] 6.
1106 Ps. lxxxix. [lxxxviii.] 16.
1107 S. John iii. 21.
1109 2 Thess. i. 2.
1110 S. John xiv. 10.
1111 2 Cor. x. 17.
1113 S. John xvii. 24.
1114 1 Cor. v. 4.
1116 Isa. xlv. 14 [LXX.].
1118 2 Cor. v. 21.
1120 See St. Basil, De Sp. Sancto, III. 29.
1121 Rom. viii. 16, 17.
1122 Rom. viii. 16, 17.
1123 2 Tim. ii. 11, 12.
1124 Ps. lxvi. [lxv.] 13.
1125 Ps. cv. [civ.] 37.
1126 Ps. xliv. [xliii.] 10.

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