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to proceed, it includes. And even for those who originally composed it in support of the Son's connaturality with the Father, that is to say, of equal honor, while the struggle was ongoing, the symbol of faith was considered sufficient without your addition.

Therefore, it is neither reasonable nor pious to introduce this addition into the definition of the faith, which the pre-eminent fathers, gathered together, both composed and handed down, moved by the Spirit. To which it is not permitted at all to add or to take away (p. 80) after that second holy council in time, through which he who dares to do this is subjected to curses and is cast out of the church, and this, an addition not spoken, as it is said, by the Word, not revealed by the Spirit, not found in the written oracles of the holy apostles.

In accordance with these, those who set forth this divine definition of the faith set it forth, and those who came after them agreed with it, even if they did not set it forth with them. For you cannot say that it was not so that some set it forth and others agreed with those who originally set it forth, being refuted by those who recorded the particulars of all the holy councils, and by the very agreement, from that time until now and indeed forever, of the four patriarchal thrones, and of the many and various peoples and tongues that bear the original and unaltered exposition.

And thus the common revelatory voices of the God-bearing theologians, evangelists, apostles, and of the prophets before them from of old are thus confessedly in agreement concerning the Spirit and thus in agreement with the God-man Word; and in addition all the councils assembled for various reasons and at various times for the sake of piety, and, so to speak, almost every God-bearing tongue; for in none of these councils has the Holy Spirit been theologized as being 'and from the Son'. And I would have just now shown this very thing, that all the divinely inspired teachers, each in his part, maintain this unalterably through the words particularly brought forth by each of them in succession.

But the contentiousness of the Latin will not for so long endure us extending our arguments, but will reply saying: how then do you, and from where having found this addition, understand the Holy Spirit to proceed from the Father alone, (p. 82) for which reason you also consider us heretics, when Christ did not say this, nor any of his disciples?

To which we will now immediately respond, saying thus. The whole body of the pious, having become one lip for good, built a tower of piety, entirely superior to the intelligible flood of impiety. For the Trinity, the perfecter of good things, came upon them as they undertook to build, not confusing, but binding together both their opinions and their tongues into a most pious and orthodox unanimity. Therefore, standing here on a safe rampart, we will first from this place strike those who bear doctrines contrary to the right ones most accurately and most nobly, and at the same time beneficially for them, if they wish. And after this, we will bring forth to them some of the proofs of the truth that appear from many places, or rather from all places, rousing them to a desire for it, that I may say, according to what is written: “if perhaps they might grope for it and find it, though it is not far from them.” But now, rather, not we, but what is like the rational rampart of piety itself will both strike and smite and rout them, and, if you wish, will also heal them.

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ἐκπορεύειν, συμπεριβάλλει. Καί αὐτοῖς δέ τοῖς συγγραψαμένοις τήν ἀρχήν ὑπέρ τῆς πρός τόν Πατέρα τοῦ Υἱοῦ συμφυΐας, ταὐτό δ᾿ εἰπεῖν ὁμοτιμίας, οὔσης τῆς ἀγωνίας, χωρίς τῆς παρ᾿ ὑμῶν προσθήκης ἀποχρῶν ἐνομίσθη τό τῆς πίστεως σύμβολον.

Οὐκοῦν εὐλόγως οὐδέ εὐσεβῶς ταύτην εἰσάγειν τήν προσθήκην ἐν τῷ τῆς πίστεως ὅρῳ, ὅν οἱ πρόκριτοι πατέρες κοινῇ συνειλεγμένοι, πνευματικινήτως συνεγράψαντό τε καί παραδεδώκασιν. Ὧ καί προσθῆναι ἤ ἀφελεῖν ὅλως οὐκ ἐφεῖται (σελ. 80) μετά τήν τῷ χρόνῳ δευτερεύουσαν ἐκείνης τῶν ἁγίων σύνοδον, δι᾿ ἧς καί ὁ τοῦτο τολμήσων ἀραῖς ὑποβάλλεται καί τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐκβάλλεται, καί ταῦτα προσθήκην οὐκ εἰρημένην ὡς εἴρηται τῷ λόγῳ, οὐκ ἀποκεκαλυμμένην τῷ Πνεύματι, οὐχ εὑρημένην ἐν τοῖς τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων ἀναγράπτοις λογίοις.

Οἷς συμφώνως καί οἱ ἐκθέμενοι τόν τῆς πίστεως τοῦτον θεῖον ὅρον ἐξέθεντο καί οἱ μετ᾿ αὐτούς γεγονότες συνέθεντο, εἰ καί μή συνεξέθεντο. Οὐ γάρ ἔχετε λέγειν, ὡς οὐχί οὕτως οἱ μέν ἐξέθεντο, οἱ δέ τοῖς τήν ἀρχήν ἐκθεμένοις συνέθεντο, ὑπό τε τῶν ἀναγραψάντων τά καθέκαστα τῶν ἁγίων ἁπασῶν συνόδων ἐξελεγχόμενοι, καί αὐτῆς τῆς ἐξ ἐκείνων μέχρι καί νῦν, μᾶλλον δέ καί ἐσαεί συμφωνίας τῶν τεσσάρων πατριαρχικῶν θρόνων, καί αὐτῶν τῶν πολλῶν καί διαφόρων καί γενῶν καί γλωσσῶν ἀδίαφορον φερουσῶν τήν ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἔκθεσιν καί ἀμεταποίητον.

Καί τοίνυν αἱ μέν ἐκφαντορικαί κοιναί φωναί τῶν θεοφόρων θεολόγων, εὐαγγελιστῶν, ἀποστόλων, καί τῶν πρό αὐτῶν ἐξ αἰῶνος προφητῶν οὕτως ὁμολογουμένως ἔχουσι περί τοῦ Πνεύματος καί οὕτως ὁμολόγως τῷ Θεανθρώπῳ λόγῳ˙ πρός δέ καί αἱ κατά διαφόρους αἰτίας καί καιρούς ὑπέρ εὐσεβείας συγκροτηθεῖσαι πᾶσαι σύνοδοι, ταὐτό δέ σχεδόν εἰπεῖν πᾶσα γλῶσσα θεοφόρος˙ ἐν οὐδεμιᾷ γάρ τῶν συνόδων τούτων καί ἐκ τοῦ Υἱοῦ τεθεολόγηται τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον. Ἔδειξα δ᾿ ἄν ἀρτίως τοῦτ᾿ αὐτό καί τούς θεηγόρους πάντας αὖθις ἕκαστον ἐν μέρει στέργοντας ἀπαραλλάκτως διά τῶν ἰδίως ἑκάστῳ τούτων ἐξενηνεγμένων λόγων ἐφεξῆς.

Ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ ἐπί τοσοῦτον ἀνέξεται τό φίλερι τοῦ λατίνου μακρούς ἡμῶν ἀποτεινόντων λόγους, ἀλλ᾿ ἀπαντήσει λέγον˙ πῶς οὖν καί ὑμεῖς καί πόθεν εὑρόντες τήν προσθήκην ταύτην, παρά μόνου τοῦ Πατρός ἐννοεῖτε τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον ἐκπορεύεσθαι, (σελ. 82) διό καί ἡμᾶς ἑτεροδόξους οἴεσθε, τοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦτο μή εἰπόντος, ἀλλ᾿ οὐδέ τῶν ἐκείνου μαθητῶν τινος;

Πρός ὅ νῦν ἡμεῖς εὐθύς ἀναντήσομεν, οὕτω λέγοντες. Τό τῶν εὐσεβούντων πλήρωμα χεῖλος γεγονότες ἕν ἐπ᾿ ἀγαθῷ, πύργον εὐσεβείας ὠκοδόμησαν, δυσσεβείας νοητοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ παντάπασιν ἀνώτερον. Ἐπεδήμησε γάρ καί αὐτοῖς οἰκοδομεῖν ἐπιχειροῦσιν ἡ τελεσιουργός τῶν ἀγαθῶν τριάς οὐ συγχέουσα, ἀλλά συνδέουσα καί τάς δόξας καί τάς γλώσσας εἰς εὐσεβεστάτην καί ὀρθόδοξον ὁμοφροσύνην. Αὐτοῦ τοίνυν ἡμεῖς ἐπ᾿ ἀσφαλοῦς ὀχυρώματος ἱστάμενοι τούς ἀπεναντίας τῶν ὀρθῶν δογμάτων φερομένους πρῶτον μέν ἐντεῦθεν εὐστοχώτατα καί γενναιότατα βαλοῦμεν, ἅμα δέ καί λυσιτελῶς αὐτοῖς, εἰ βούλοιντο. Μετά τοῦτο δέ τάς πολλαχόθεν, μᾶλλον δέ τῶν πανταχόθεν ἀναφαινομένων ἀποδείξεων τῆς ἀληθείας, ἔστιν ἅς προκομίσομεν αὐτοῖς πρός πόθον ταύτης καί αὐτούς ἐπαίροντες, ἵν᾿ εἴπω κατά τό γεγραμμένον˙ «εἰ ἄραγε ψηλαφήσειαν αὐτήν καί εὕροιεν, καί γε οὐ μακράν ὑπάρχουσαν αὐτῶν». Νῦν δέ μᾶλλον τούτους οὐχ ἡμεῖς, ἀλλ᾿ αὐτό τό οἷον λογικόν τῆς εὐσεβείας περιτείχισμα καί βαλεῖ καί πατάξει καί τροπώσεται, εἰ δέ βούλει, καί ἰάσεται.