5. But do you answer the question which has been put to you whether anywhere in the divine Scripture you have found the Holy Spirit called simply ‘spirit’, without the above-mentioned addition and apart from the qualification we have recorded. You cannot answer it! For you will not find it so in Scripture. But it is written in Genesis, ‘And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.’ And a little later, ‘My Spirit shall not abide among these men, for they are flesh.’ In Numbers, Moses says to the son of Nun, ‘Be not jealous for me. Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, when the Lord bestows his Spirit upon them !’ In Judges it is said of Gothoniel: ‘And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him and he judged Israel.’ And again: ‘The Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah.’ And concerning Samson: ‘The child grew’, it says, ‘and the Lord blessed him, and the Spirit of the Lord began to accompany him,’ and, ‘The Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily.’ David sings: ‘Take not thy Holy Spirit from me’; and again, in the one hundred and forty-second Psalm: ‘Thy good Spirit shall lead me in a plain country, for thy name’s sake, O Lord.’ In Isaiah it is written: ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me.’ And before this it was said: ‘Woe to you, rebellious children ! Thus saith the Lord: You took counsel, but not from me, and made covenants, but not through my Spirit, to add sins to sins.’ And again: ‘Hear these things. From the beginning, I have not spoken in secret. When it was, I was there. And now the Lord hath sent me, and his Spirit.’ A little later he speaks thus: ‘And this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord, My Spirit which is upon thee’; and again in what follows he adds: ‘Neither envoy nor angel, but the Lord himself saved them, because he loved them and had mercy on them; he himself redeemed them and took them up and exalted them all the days of the age. But they were disobedient and provoked his Holy Spirit, and he was turned to enmity toward them.’ And Ezekiel speaks thus: ‘And the Spirit took me up and brought me to the land of the Chaldaeans, to the Captivity, in a vision, by the Spirit of God.’ In Daniel: ‘God raised up the Holy Spirit of a young man whose name was Daniel, and he cried with a loud voice, I am clear from the blood of this woman.’ Micah says: ‘The house of Jacob provoked the Spirit of the Lord’; and by Joel, God says: ‘And it shall be after these things that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh.’ Again, through Zechariah the voice of God says: ‘But receive my words and my commandments which I charge by my Spirit to my servants the prophets’; and when the prophet rebukes the people a little farther on, he says: ‘They make their hearts disobedient, lest they should hear my law and the words which the Lord of hosts has sent by his Spirit in the hands of the prophets of old.’ These few examples we have collected and set down from the Old Testament.

Ὑμεῖς δὲ εἴπατε τὸ προταθὲν ὑμῖν, εἰ εὑ ρήκατέ που τῆς θείας Γραφῆς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον λεγόμενον ἁπλῶς Πνεῦμα, χωρὶς τῆς προειρημένης ἐπ' αὐτῷ προσθήκης, καὶ πλὴν τῆς παρατηρήσεως ἧς γε ἐμνημονεύσαμεν. Ἀλλ' οὐκ ἂν εἴποιτε· οὐ γὰρ εὑρήσετε γεγραμμένον. Ἀλλ' ἐν μὲν τῇ Γενέσει γέ γραπται, «Καὶ Πνεῦμα Θεοῦ ἐπεφέρετο ἐπάνω τοῦ ὕδατος·» καὶ μετ' ὀλίγα· «Οὐ μὴ καταμείνῃ τὸ Πνεῦμά μου ἐν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τούτοις, διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτοὺς σάρκας·» ἐν δὲ τοῖς Ἀριθμοῖς λέγει Μωϋσῆς πρὸς τὸν τοῦ Ναυῆ, «Μὴ ζηλοῖς σὺ ἐμέ· καὶ τίς ἂν δῷ τὸν λαὸν Κυρίου προφήτας, ὅταν δῷ Κύριος τὸ Πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ ἐπ' αὐτούς,» Καὶ ἐν τοῖς Κριταῖς ἐπὶ μὲν Γοθονιήλ· «Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐπ' αὐτὸν Πνεῦμα Κυρίου, καὶ ἔκρινε τὸν Ἰσραήλ.» Καὶ πάλιν· «Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐπὶ Ἰεφθάε Πνεῦμα Κυρίου.» Περὶ δὲ Σαμψών· «Ἡδρύνθη, φησὶ, τὸ παιδάριον καὶ ηὐλόγησεν αὐτὸ Κύριος·» Καὶ, «Ἤρξατο Πνεῦμα Κυρίου συνεκπορεύεσθαι αὐτῷ·» Καὶ, «Ἥλατο ἐπ' αὐτὸν Πνεῦμα Κυρίου.» Καὶ ὁ μὲν ∆αβὶδ ψάλλει· «Τὸ Πνεῦμά σου τὸ ἅγιον μὴ ἀντανέλῃς ἀπ' ἐμοῦ·» Καὶ πάλιν ἐν τῷ ἑκατοστῷ τετταρακοστῷ δευτέρῳ ψαλ μῷ· «Τὸ Πνεῦμά σου τὸ ἀγαθὸν ὁδηγήσει με ἐν γῇ εὐθείᾳ, ἕνεκεν τοῦ ὀνόματός σου, Κύριε, ζήσεις με.» Ἐν δὲ τῷ Ἡσαΐᾳ γέγραπται· «Πνεῦμα Κυρίου ἐπ' ἐμὲ, οὗ εἵνεκεν ἔχρισέ με.» Ἐλέγετο δὲ πρὸ τούτου· «Οὐαὶ, τέκνα ἀποστάται. Τάδε λέγει Κύριος· Ἐποιήσατε βουλὴν οὐ δι' ἐμοῦ, καὶ συνθήκας οὐ διὰ τοῦ Πνεύματός μου, προσθεῖναι ἁμαρτίας ἐφ' ἁμαρτίαις·» καὶ πάλιν· «Ἀκούσατε ταῦτα· Οὐκ ἀπ' ἀρχῆς ἐν κρυφῇ λελάληκα· ἡνίκα ἐγένετο, ἐκεῖ ἤμην· καὶ νῦν Κύριος ἀπέστειλέ με, καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ.» Μετ' ὀλίγα δὲ οὕτω φησί· «Καὶ αὕτη αὐτοῖς ἡ παρ' ἐμοῦ διαθήκη, εἶπε Κύριος, τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἐμὸν, ὅ ἐστιν ἐπὶ σοί·» καὶ αὖθις ἐν τοῖς ἑξῆς ἐπιφέρει λέγων· «Οὐ πρέσβυς, οὐδὲ ἄγγελος, ἀλλ' αὐτὸς ὁ Κύριος ἔσωσεν αὐτοὺς, διὰ τὸ ἀγαπᾷν αὐτοὺς, καὶ φείδεσθαι αὐτῶν· αὐτὸς ἐλυτρώσατο αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἀνέλαβεν αὐτοὺς, καὶ ὕψωσεν αὐτοὺς πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τοῦ αἰῶνος· αὐτοὶ δὲ ἠπείθησαν, καὶ παρώξυναν τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐστράφη αὐτοῖς εἰς ἔχθραν.» Ἰεζεχιὴλ δὲ οὕτω λέγει· «Καὶ ἀνέλαβέ με Πνεῦμα, καὶ ἤγαγέ με εἰς γῆν Χαλδαίων εἰς τὴν αἰχμαλωσίαν, ἐν ὁράσει, ἐν Πνεύματι Θεοῦ.» Ἐν δὲ τῷ ∆ανιήλ· «Ἐξήγειρεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον παιδαρίου νεωτέρου, ᾧ ὄνομα ∆ανιὴλ, καὶ ἀν εβόησε φωνῇ μεγάλῃ· Καθαρὸς ἐγὼ ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος ταύτης.» Καὶ ὁ μὲν Μιχαίας φησίν· «Οἶκος Ἰακὼβ παρώξυνε Πνεῦμα Κυρίου.» Καὶ διὰ τοῦ Ἰωὴλ ὁ Θεός φησι· «Καὶ ἔσται μετὰ ταῦτα, καὶ ἐκχεῶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Πνεύματός μου ἐπὶ πᾶσαν σάρκα.» Καὶ διὰ τοῦ Ζαχαρίου δὲ πάλιν, Θεοῦ φωνή ἐστι λέγοντος· «Πλὴν τοὺς λόγους μου καὶ τὰ νόμιμά μου δέχεσθε, ὅσα ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαι ἐν Πνεύματί μου τοῖς δούλοις μου, τοῖς προφήταις.» Ὅτε καὶ αἰτιώμενος ὁ προ φήτης τὸν λαὸν, μετ' ὀλίγα ἔλεγε· «Καὶ τὴν καρδίαν αὐτῶν ἔταξαν ἀπειθῆ τοῦ μὴ εἰσακούειν τοῦ νόμου μου, καὶ τοὺς λόγους οὓς ἐξαπέστειλε Κύριος παντοκράτωρ ἐν Πνεύματι αὐτοῦ ἐν χερσὶ τῶν προφητῶν τῶν ἔμπροσθεν.» Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἐκ τῶν Παλαιῶν ἀναλέξαντες, εἰρήκαμεν ὀλίγα.