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For all these things are worked by one and the same Spirit, distributing to each one individually as he wills. And it is possible to find countless other proofs from the scriptures, that all the high and God-befitting names, which are applied by scripture to the Father and the Son, these are also observed concerning the Holy Spirit; incorruptibility, blessedness, the good, the wise, the powerful, the just, holiness; every honorable name is thus spoken of the Holy Spirit, as it is also spoken of the Father and of the Son, except for those through which the hypostases are clearly and unconfusedly distinguished from one another, I mean that the Holy Spirit is called neither Father nor Son; but the other things by which the Father and the Son are named, these are also applied by the scripture to the Holy Spirit. For this reason, therefore, we comprehend that the Holy Spirit is above creation. Therefore, where the Father and where the Son are conceived, there also the Holy Spirit is conceived; for both the Father and the Son are above 3,1.67 creation, which the consequence of the argument also attested for the Holy Spirit. He, therefore, who places the Holy Spirit above creation has consequently accepted the correct and sound argument; for he will confess one uncreated nature, which is observed in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. But since, as they suppose, for proof that the Holy Spirit is created they bring forward to us the voice of the prophet which says that He who establishes thunder and creates spirit and declares to men his Christ, it is fitting to understand this, that the prophet says another spirit is created in the establishment of the thunder and not the Holy Spirit; for the mystical word calls the gospel thunder. In whom, therefore, faith in the gospel becomes firm and unchangeable, these through faith pass over from being flesh to becoming spirit, as the Lord says that That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. God, therefore, is the one who, by making the evangelical thunder firm for believers, makes the believer a spirit, and he who is born of the Spirit and has become a spirit through such thunder declares Christ as the apostle says that No one can say Lord Jesus Christ, except in the Holy Spirit.

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Πάντα γὰρ ταῦτα ἐνεργεῖ τὸ ἓν καὶ τὸ αὐτὸ πνεῦμα, διαιροῦν ἰδίᾳ ἑκάστῳ καθὼς βούλεται. καὶ μυρίας ἄλλας ἐκ τῶν γραφῶν ἔστιν ἀποδείξεις εὑρεῖν, ὅτι πάντα τὰ ὑψηλὰ καὶ θεοπρεπῆ ὀνόματα, ὅσα τῷ πατρὶ καὶ τῷ υἱῷ παρὰ τῆς γραφῆς ἐφαρμόζεται, ταῦτα καὶ περὶ τὸ ἅγιον θεωρεῖται πνεῦμα· ἡ ἀφθαρσία, ἡ μακαριότης, τὸ ἀγαθόν, τὸ σοφόν, τὸ δυνατόν, τὸ δίκαιον, ἡ ἁγιότης· πᾶν τίμιον ὄνομα οὕτως λέγεται ἐπὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, ὡς καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ λέγεται, πλὴν τούτων δι' ὧν αἱ ὑποστάσεις τρανῶς τε καὶ ἀσυγχύτως ἀπ' ἀλλήλων διαχωρίζονται, λέγω δὴ ὅτι οὔτε πατὴρ λέγεται τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον οὔτε υἱός· τὰ δὲ ἄλλα ὅσα ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ὁ υἱὸς ὀνομάζεται, ταῦτα καὶ τῷ ἁγίῳ πνεύματι παρὰ τῆς γραφῆς ἐφαρμόζεται. διὰ τοῦτο οὖν καταλαμβάνομεν ὅτι ἄνω τῆς κτίσεώς ἐστι τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον. οὐκοῦν ὅπου ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ὅπου ὁ υἱὸς νοεῖται, ἐκεῖ νοεῖται καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον· ἄνω γὰρ τῆς 3,1.67 κτίσεως καὶ ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ὁ υἱός, ὅπερ καὶ τῷ ἁγίῳ πνεύματι ἀκολουθία τοῦ λόγου προσεμαρτύρησεν. ὁ τοίνυν ὑπερτιθεὶς τῆς κτίσεως τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ἀκολούθως τὸν ὀρθόν τε καὶ ὑγιῆ παρεδέξατο λόγον· μίαν γὰρ ὁμολογήσει τὴν ἄκτιστον φύσιν, τὴν ἐν πατρὶ καὶ υἱῷ καὶ πνεύματι ἁγίῳ θεωρουμένην. Ἐπεὶ δὲ εἰς ἀπόδειξιν, ὡς οἴονται, τοῦ κτιστὸν εἶναι τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον τὴν τοῦ προφήτου φωνὴν ἡμῖν προφέρουσι τὴν λέγουσαν ὅτι Ὁ στερεῶν βροντὴν καὶ κτίζων πνεῦμα καὶ ἀπαγγέλλων εἰς ἀνθρώπους τὸν Χριστὸν αὐτοῦ, τοῦτο προσήκει νοῆσαι, ὅτι ἄλλο κτίζεσθαι πνεῦμα ἐν τῇ στερεότητι τῆς βροντῆς ὁ προφήτης λέγει καὶ οὐχὶ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα· βροντὴν γὰρ ὁ μυστικὸς λόγος τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ὀνομάζει. ἐν οἷς οὖν γίνεται βεβαία καὶ ἀμετάθετος ἡ εἰς τὸ εὐαγγέλιον πίστις, οὗτοι διὰ τῆς πίστεως μεταβαίνουσιν ἀπὸ τοῦ εἶναι σάρκες εἰς τὸ γίνεσθαι πνεῦμα, καθὼς λέγει ὁ κύριος ὅτι Τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τῆς σαρκὸς σάρξ ἐστι, τὸ δὲ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τοῦ πνεύματος πνεῦμά ἐστιν. θεὸς οὖν ἐστιν ὁ διὰ τοῦ στερροποιεῖν τὴν εὐαγγελικὴν βροντὴν τοῖς πιστεύουσι πνεῦμα ποιῶν τὸν πιστεύοντα, ὁ δὲ ἐκ τοῦ πνεύματος γεννηθεὶς καὶ πνεῦμα διὰ τῆς τοιαύτης βροντῆς γενόμενος ἀπαγγέλλει τὸν Χριστὸν καθὼς ὁ ἀπόστολος λέγει ὅτι Οὐδεὶς δύναται εἰπεῖν κύριον Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, εἰ μὴ ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ.