Or, on the contrary, shall it smite us with amazement at once at the mighty power and love to man of the Saviour, in that He both endured to suffer with us in our infirmities, and was able to come down to our weakness? If on the other hand they suppose the sub-numeration to benefit the Spirit alone, they must be taught that the Spirit is spoken of together with the Lord in precisely the same manner in which the Son is spoken of with the Father. No man knows the Father save the Son. Thus I write not to disparage the baptism by water, but to overthrow the arguments of those who exalt themselves against the Spirit; who confound things that are distinct from one another, and compare those which admit of no comparison. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Exposition of the present state of the Churches. A further powerful incentive to my undertaking was the warm fervour of your love unfeigned, and the seriousness and taciturnity of your disposition; a guarantee that you would not publish what I was about to say to all the world — not because it would not be worth making known, but to avoid casting pearls before swine. In short I should very much like to learn from this newfangled philosophy what kind of glory the Apostle ascribed by the word in, according to the interpretation which our opponents proffer as derived from Scripture, for I have nowhere found the formula To You, O Father, be honour and glory, through Your only begotten Son, by [or in] the Holy Ghost,— a form which to our opponents comes, so to say, as naturally as the air they breathe. 45. Romans 5:14 Typically, That rock was Christ; 1 Corinthians 10:4 and the water a type of the living power of the word; as He says, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He was present when the Lord was being tempted by the devil; for, it is said, Jesus was led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted. Now one and eighth are the same, in itself distinctly indicating that really one and eighth of which the Psalmist makes mention in certain titles of the Psalms, the state which follows after this present time, the day which knows no waning or eventide, and no successor, that age which ends not or grows old. They ought rather to bewail their weakness, in that we are powerless to express in words our gratitude for the benefits which we are actually receiving; for He passes all understanding, Philippians 4:7 and convicts speech of its natural inability even to approach His dignity in the least degree; as it is written in the Book of Wisdom, Exalt Him as much as you can, for even yet will He far exceed; and when you exalt Him put forth all your strength, and be not weary, for you can never go far enough. For not heaven and earth and the great seas, not the creatures that live in the water and on dry land, not plants, and stars, and air, and seasons, not the vast variety in the order of the universe, so well sets forth the excellency of His might as that God, being incomprehensible, should have been able, impassibly, through flesh, to have come into close conflict with death, to the end that by His own suffering He might give us the boon of freedom from suffering. Furthermore as in our bodies is health, or heat, or, generally, their variable conditions, so, very frequently is the Spirit in the soul; since He does not abide with those who, on account of the instability of their will, easily reject the grace which they have received. What is our answer to this? Matthew 28:19 If I say the Father and the Son with the Holy Ghost shall I make, any difference in the sense? note on p. 3, in place of with. 1 Corinthians 11:12 What, then, is the result of this systematic discussion? Hebrews 13:15 According to one use, then, it is thus that we offer our thanksgiving, as the true religion requires, in the Spirit; although it is not quite unobjectionable that any one should testify of himself the Spirit of God is in me, and I offer glory after being made wise through the grace that flows from Him. CHAPTER IV Do you call the Spirit a servant? And He said the same concerning the Spirit. Stirring up himself to his work, he writes invoking the holy God of the Prophets, the Author of light, through our Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit. So you may even still see that the language of country folk preserves the ancient fashion, while of these, our cunning experts in logomachy, the language bears the brand of the new philosophy. And so the world, that is life enslaved by the affections of the flesh, can no more receive the grace of the Spirit than a weak eye the light of a sunbeam. I am moreover restrained by the Prophet's saying, Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time, Amos 5:13 a time when some trip up their neighbours' heels, some stamp on a man when he is down, and others clap their hands with joy, but there is not one to feel for the fallen and hold out a helping hand, although according to the ancient law he is not uncondemned, who passes by even his enemy's beast of burden fallen under his load. The petty exactitude of these men about syllables and words is not, as might be supposed, simple and straightforward; nor is the mischief to which it tends a small one. For to say Paul and Silvanus and Timothy 1 Thessalonians 1:1 is precisely the same thing as to say Paul with Timothy and Silvanus; for the connection of the names is preserved by either mode of expression. They on the other hand who support their sub-numeration by talking of first and second and third ought to be informed that into the undefiled theology of Christians they are importing the polytheism of heathen error. By imitating, through baptism, the burial of Christ. On this heresy depends the idle subtlety of these men about the phrases in question. But all these, it is said, works that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will. It is for them to make up their mind about their own action or even now to change it. Wherefore we too are undismayed at the cloud of our enemies, and, resting our hope on the aid of the Spirit, have, with all boldness, proclaimed the truth. Why does he speak thus? Thus too in the case of the heavenly powers; their substance is, perhaps, an aerial spirit, or an immaterial fire, as it is written, Who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire; wherefore they exist in space and become visible, and appear in their proper bodily form to them that are worthy. There is involved a deep and covert design against true religion. Rash, then, is the attempt to deprive the Son of participation in the doxology, as though worthy only to be ranked in a lower place of honour. Hence truly on account of the antiquity of their institution many of their ceremonies appear to be defective. Those who know not what they ought to pray for, Romans 8:26 even though they be induced to utter a word of the Spirit with awe, as though coming near His dignity, yet prune down all that exceeds the exact proportion of their speech. Lat. Clement, in more primitive fashion, writes, God lives, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost. But let us revert to our subject. Luke 3:16 But no one on this account would be justified in calling that baptism a perfect baptism wherein only the name of the Spirit was invoked. John 20:22-23 And is it not plain and incontestable that the ordering of the Church is effected through the Spirit? It may be compared, I think, to some naval battle which has arisen out of time old quarrels, and is fought by men who cherish a deadly hate against one another, of long experience in naval warfare, and eager for the fight. What writing has taught us to turn to the East at the prayer? We have stated that so far as the sense goes it is the same to say glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, and glory be to the Father and to the Son with the Holy Ghost. From what other source could they be derived? Every one is a theologue though he have his soul branded with more spots than can be counted. While examining, so far as I could, if any of the blessed men of old used the words to which objection is now made, I found many worthy of credit both on account of their early date, and also a characteristic in which they are unlike the men of today — because of the exactness of their knowledge. Romans 8:32 It is meant that the Son has it of the Father that He works in goodness on behalf of men. How according to the Psalmist can the glory of the just man be great and according to you the glory of the Spirit none? Those that are confined in the darkness of ignorance He enlightens: for this reason He is true Light. We received Him with the Father and the Son, and we dishonour Him as a part of creation. But these men, who bring ruin on themselves from every possible source, have turned even the capacity for counting against the faith. Let us consider the points before us, as follows: 26. But I am ashamed at the degraded conception to which, by the course of the argument, I have been brought down. In what manner in the confession of the three hypostases we preserve the pious dogma of the Monarchia. On what written authority do we do this? Do not then let us understand by what is called a commandment a peremptory mandate delivered by organs of speech, and giving orders to the Son, as to a subordinate, concerning what He ought to do. Also concerning the unwritten laws of the church. Is it not the fact that things when numbered remain what they naturally and originally were, while number is adopted among us as a sign indicative of the plurality of subjects? This edition of On the Holy Spirit comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by chapter. being, equally with the Father and the Son, unapproachable in Then without question their rule will fall through, for we find not only of whom, but also through whom applied to the Father. Let us now return to our main topic. By Hermann Dörries. And if the Spirit is co-ordinate with the Son, and the Son with the Father, it is obvious that the Spirit is also co-ordinate with the Father. When then the names are ranked in one and the same co-ordinate series, what room is there for speaking on the one hand of connumeration, and on the other of sub-numeration? For some bodies we count, some we measure, and some we weigh; those which are by nature continuous we apprehend by measure; to those which are divided we apply number (with the exception of those which on account of their fineness are measured); while heavy objects are distinguished by the inclination of the balance. For my own part I would pray most earnestly that the good God will make His peace rule in the hearts of all, so that these men who are swollen with pride and set in battle array against us may be calmed by the Spirit of meekness and of love; and that if they have become utterly savage, and are in an untamable state, He will grant to us at least to bear with long suffering all that we have to bear at their hands. There is then on the one hand a natural glory, as light is the glory of the sun; and on the other a glory bestowed judicially and of free will ' ab extra' on them that are worthy. Therefore, inasmuch as the Holy Spirit perfects rational beings, completing their excellence, He is analogous to Form. Yet the Apostle says the ministration of the Spirit is glorious. Each is similarly mentioned. So like the debtors — of course bona fide debtors — they clamour for written proof, and reject as worthless the unwritten tradition of the Fathers. For baptism is not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God. Share this on Twitter. John 5:20 This is He who holds the earth, and has grasped it with His hand, who brought all things to order and adornment, who poised the hills in their places, and measured the waters, and gave to all things in the universe their proper rank, who encompasses the whole of heaven with but a small portion of His power, which, in a figure, the prophet calls a span. For as there is one Father and one Son, so is there one Holy Ghost. John 14:17 And so says Isaiah;— He that spread forth the earth and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath unto the people upon it, and Spirit to them that trample on it ; for they that trample down earthly things and rise above them are borne witness to as worthy of the gift of the Holy Ghost. In this manner they who have been entrusted with the stewardship of souls provide witnesses, whatever they may be, so as to produce them at some future day. 13. The Lord says The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. And in the creation bethink you first, I pray you, of the original cause of all things that are made, the Father; of the creative cause, the Son; of the perfecting cause, the Spirit; so that the ministering spirits subsist by the will of the Father, are brought into being by the operation of the Son, and perfected by the presence of the Spirit. In what manner in the confession of the three hypostases we preserve Do thousand thousand of angels stand before Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand ministering spirits? Isaiah 44:6 And hitherto we have never, even at the present time, heard of a second God. And again: most divine on this account after the Unity is the Trinity. For ancient dogmas inspire a certain sense of awe, venerable as they are with a hoary antiquity. Now the Spirit is not brought into intimate association with the soul by local approximation. It is the Spirit which says, as the Lord says, Get you down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them. We profess belief in the Spirit, and then we quarrel with our own confessions. I was taught too by the children at Babylon, that, when there is no one to support the cause of true religion, we ought alone and all unaided to do our duty. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read De spiritu sancto. And whence did he who was ordained to announce the mysteries of the vision to the Man of Desires derive the wisdom whereby he was enabled to teach hidden things, if not from the Holy Spirit? Ezekiel 23:5 This is not the state of things now. If here creation may be taken to mean the bringing of the departed to life again, how mighty is not the operation of the Spirit, Who is to us the dispenser of the life that follows on the resurrection, and attunes our souls to the spiritual life beyond? In delivering the formula of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Matthew 28:19 our Lord did not connect the gift with number. For God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts crying Abba, Father, Galatians 4:6 that the voice of the Spirit may become the very voice of them that have received him. CHAPTER XII In this place. Rather was the Word full of His Father's excellences; He shines forth from the Father, and does all things according to the likeness of Him that begot Him. Whence is it that we are Christians? Father, but after the Father. For through Him comes every succour to our souls, and it is in accordance with each kind of care that an appropriate title has been devised. Philippians 2:10-11 Wherefore we use both terms, expressing by the one His own proper dignity, and by the other His grace to usward. And as is the power of seeing in the healthy eye, so is the operation of the Spirit in the purified soul. However, to the well-disposed hearer, even these are not insignificant, unless the terms right hand and bosom be accepted in a physical and derogatory sense, so as at once to circumscribe God in local limits, and invent form, mould, and bodily position, all of which are totally distinct from the idea of the absolute, the infinite, and the incorporeal. 58. Lucius, 1613. How could it? This is the special and peculiar place of true worship; for it is said Take heed to yourself that thou offer not your burnt offerings in every place...but in the place the Lord your God shall choose. Does not this come from that unpublished and secret teaching which our fathers guarded in a silence out of the reach of curious meddling and inquisitive investigation? Matthew 10:20 Again, the Spirit is conceived of, in relation to the distribution of gifts, as a whole in parts. Shall we not then highly exalt Him who is in His nature divine, in His greatness infinite, in His operations powerful, in the blessings He confers, good? H. Dörries De spiritu sancto. The result of this lust for ordering is that our people are in a state of wild confusion for lack of being ordered; the exhortations of those in authority are rendered wholly purposeless and void, because there is not a man but, out of his ignorant impudence, thinks that it is just as much his duty to give orders to other people, as it is to obey any one else. From $154.00. For the Father is not regarded from the difference of the operations, by the exhibition of a separate and peculiar energy; for whatsoever things He sees the Father doing, these also does the Son likewise; John 5:19 but He enjoys our wonder at all that comes to pass out of the glory which comes to Him from the Only Begotten, rejoicing in the Doer Himself as well as in the greatness of the deeds, and exalted by all who acknowledge Him as Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom [by whom, A.V.] 14–18), the former of which is nearly identical with the Confession of Constantinople. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. together with Christ. So as Judith says, You have thought, and what things you determined were ready at hand. Wherefore If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. And the doxology which we offer in the Spirit is not an acknowledgment of His rank; it is rather a confession of our own weakness, while we show that we are not sufficient to glorify Him of ourselves, but our sufficiency is in the Holy Spirit. For I hold it apostolic to abide also by the unwritten traditions. minute portions of theology. For instance, the Lord says, I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. Wherein also is the refutation Wikipedia Citation. Get this from a library! Country: Hungary City: Budapest Keeper location: National Széchényi Library Author: Saint Basil the Great (Basilius Magnus) Content: De divinitate filii et spiritus sancti; De spiritu sancto Translator: Georgius Trapezuntius Writing medium: parchment Number of sheets: 156 fol. For he who does not believe the Spirit does not believe in the Son, and he who has not believed in the Son does not believe in the Father. For them that deny the faith? 1 Corinthians 3:13 And ere now there have been some who in their championship of true religion have undergone the death for Christ's sake, not in mere similitude, but in actual fact, and so have needed none of the outward signs of water for their salvation, because they were baptized in their own blood. Now there is no one to receive the weak in faith, Romans 14:1 but mutual hatred has blazed so high among fellow clansmen that they are more delighted at a neighbour's fall than at their own success. Origen, too, in many of his expositions of the Psalms, we find using the form of doxology with the Holy Ghost. But I should hesitate to believe they have reached such a pitch of infatuation as to assert that the God of the universe, like some common quality conceivable only by reason and without actual existence in any hypostasis, is divided into subordinate divisions, and that then this subdivision is called sub-numeration. Romans 8:26-27 It follows then that, as the suppliant is inferior to the benefactor, so far is the Spirit inferior in dignity to God. The expression right hand does not, as they contend, indicate the lower place, but equality of relation; it is not understood physically, in which case there might be something sinister about God, but Scripture puts before us the magnificence of the dignity of the Son by the use of dignified language indicating the seat of honour. Saint Basil's De Spiritu Sancto (Of the Holy Spirit) Through the Holy Spirit we are restored to paradise, led back to the Kingdom of heaven, and adopted as children, given confidence to call God "Father" and to share in Christ's grace, called children of light and given a share in eternal glory. Who is the Lord that directs into the love of God and into the patient waiting for Christ for tribulations? But these men, to the end, as we have already remarked, that they may establish the difference of nature, have laid down the law that this phrase befits the Father alone. Of the beliefs and practices whether generally accepted or publicly enjoined which are preserved in the Church some we possess derived from written teaching; others we have received delivered to us in a mystery by the tradition of the apostles; and both of these in relation to true religion have the same force. Against those who assert that the baptism in the name of the Father alone is sufficient. st. basil the great de spiritu sancto homilies on the hexa st. basil the great de spiritu sancto homilies on the hexaemeron de spiritu sancto nine homilies on the For men are either brought under a yoke of slavery by conquest, as when prisoners are taken in war; or they are enslaved on account of poverty, as the Egyptians were oppressed by Pharaoh; or, by a wise and mysterious dispensation, the worst children are by their fathers' order condemned to serve the wiser and the better; and this any righteous enquirer into the circumstances would declare to be not a sentence of condemnation but a benefit. He that has seen me has seen the Father; John 14:9 not the express image, nor yet the form, for the divine nature does not admit of combination; but the goodness of the will, which, being concurrent with the essence, is beheld as like and equal, or rather the same, in the Father as in the Son. It follows that the mention of the Spirit and that of angels are not made under like conditions. sense "with whom" is more suitable. The blessed Paul brings both phrases to bear upon one and the same subject, in the words of him and through him and to him are all things. Come, then, set aside mere contention. Please see Wikipedia's template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. Oh the terrible insensibility, the pitiable audacity, of them that maintain this!
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