XIII.
Seest thou that all through Scripture the Spirit is
preached, and yet nowhere named a creature? And what can the impious have to say if
the Lord sends forth His disciples to baptize in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit?328
Without contradiction, that
implies a
communion and
unity between them, according to which there
are neither three divinities nor (three) lordships; but, while there
remain truly and certainly the three persons, the real
unity of the
three must be acknowledged. And in this way proper credit will be
given to the
sending and the
being sent329
| 329 The
text is, οὕτω
γὰρ (τὸ
ἀποστέλλον)
καὶ τὸ
ἀποστελλόμενον,
οἰκείως ἂν
πιστεύοιτο,
καθ᾽ ὁ, etc. |
(in the
Godhead), according to which the
Father hath sent forth the Son, and the Son in like manner sends forth
the Spirit. For one of the persons surely could not (be said to)
send Himself; and one could not speak of the
Father as incarnate.
For the articles of our
faith will not concur with the vicious tenets
of the heresies; and it is right that our conceptions should follow the
inspired and apostolic doctrines, and not that our impotent fancies
should coerce the articles of our divine faith.
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