Anf-01 v.ii.ix Pg 7
John xvi. 13.
And He says of Himself to the Father, “I have,” says He, “glorified Thee upon the earth; I have finished the work which, Thou gavest Me; I have manifested Thy name to men.”547 547
Anf-03 v.iii.xxii Pg 20
John xvi. 12, 13.
He (thus) shows that there was nothing of which they were ignorant, to whom He had promised the future attainment of all truth by help of the Spirit of truth. And assuredly He fulfilled His promise, since it is proved in the Acts of the Apostles that the Holy Ghost did come down. Now they who reject that Scripture2087 2087 See Tertullian’s Anti-Marcion, iv. 5, and v. 2 (Trans. pp. 187 and 377).
can neither belong to the Holy Spirit, seeing that they cannot acknowledge that the Holy Ghost has been sent as yet to the disciples, nor can they presume to claim to be a church themselves2088 2088 Nec ecclesiam se dicant defendere.
who positively have no means of proving when, and with what swaddling-clothes2089 2089 Incunabulis, infant nursing.
this body was established. Of so much importance is it to them not to have any proofs for the things which they maintain, lest along with them there be introduced damaging exposures2090 2090 Traductiones.
of those things which they mendaciously devise.