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For what you would have said with us and the truth against those who say the Son is begotten from the Father and from the Spirit, making other pretexts in sins, or rather in impieties, and that "alone" is not added to "begotten from the Father," these things you yourself now hear from us and the truth, saying the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son; and trying to confirm this from another source and from the fact that "alone" is not added to "proceeds from the Father"; for he who says the Spirit is also from the Son will fall away from the very adoption of sons through the Holy Spirit.

For where in the divinely-inspired oracles would one find the Son named as a projector, although for Gregory the great theologian all the appellations of the Son were frequently enumerated, and not only enumerated but also contemplated? Who, also explaining "only-begotten," says, "not that," he says, "He is alone from the Alone and alone, but also in a unique manner"; which elsewhere he called singly "in a peculiar manner," explaining this again. And "alone" as one; and "from the Alone" as from one who begot in virginity, which is to say not from a conjugal union. And what else could "alone" be, than that He is only Son, but not also Father nor projector? But if the Father is also called only Father, it is fittingly so—for the Spirit is also from the Father—and the Spirit is called the Spirit of the Father, and the Father could be called of the Spirit, as its cause. For the great James the brother of God called him the Father of lights, that is, of the Son and of the Spirit, as the great Athanasius also says when explaining it. But if this is so (p. 122), as it indeed is, the Son could also be called Father of light, that is, of the Holy Spirit, if the Spirit is also from him according to you.

If, then, it were possible to name these things, such as Father of light or projector of the Holy Spirit, how would not Gregory, the great in theology, have put this before almost all His other names, although he was striving to show His equality with the Father? Wherefore he says: "If it is a great thing for the Father to have His origin from nowhere, it is no less for the Son to be from such a Father. And this great matter of the generation belongs to the Son." If, then, the being a projector were added, how would he not have called it such a great matter, through which he would have seemed even more to show Him equal to the Father? But he did not say it; therefore, it is not added.

For this great theologian does not simply posit procession as a property of the Spirit, but proceeding from the Father, foreseeing, I suppose, and refuting in advance your impious addition. For having said a little above, that the Father is begetter and projector, but the Son is not a projector, but only begotten, proceeding he says, "but we, standing on our own terms, introduce the unbegotten and the begotten and that which proceeds from the Father." He did not say simply that "proceeding" is a property of the Spirit, lest someone might think that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son or also from the Son; for "the begotten" implies the Father in the mind, but "the processible" does not do so. For this reason he posited "proceeding from the Father" as a property of the Spirit; "for this," says also Basil the Great, "the Holy Spirit has as a sign indicative of its hypostatic property, to be known after the Son and with Him and to subsist from the Father." But do you see how you have been justly driven out by us (p. 124) from communion, not standing on our terms and piety?

For either you will also call the Son Father, as was also shown above, so that for you the Spirit may also be proceeding from him, or proceeding from the Father would not be for you a property of the Spirit, nor will you think that causing to proceed is a property of the

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Ἅ γάρ ἄν εἶπες μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν τε καί τῆς ἀληθείας πρός τούς ἐκ Πατρός τε καί ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματος λέγοντας γεγεννῆσθαι τόν Υἱόν, ἄλλας τε προφάσεις προφασιζομένους ἐν ἁμαρτίαις, μᾶλλον δέ δυσσεβείαις, καί ὅτι μή προστέθειται τῷ γεγεννῆσθαι ἐκ Πατρός τό "μόνου", ταῦτα καί αὐτός ἀρτίως ἀφ᾿ ἡμῶν τε καί τῆς ἀληθείας ἄκουε, ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός καί τοῦ Υἱοῦ λέγων ἐκπορεύεσθαι τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον˙ ἑτέρωθέν τε τοῦτο πειρώμενος πιστοῦσθαι καί τοῦ μή προσκεῖσθαι τῷ ἐκ Πατρός ἐκπορεύεσθαι τό "μόνου" ˙ καί αὐτῆς γάρ ἐκπεσεῖται τῆς διά τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος υἱοθεσίας ὁ καί ἐκ Υἱοῦ τό Πνεῦμα λέγων˙

Ποῦ γάρ τῶν θεοπνεύστων λογίων προβολέα τόν Υἱόν εὕροι τις ἄν ὠνομασμένον, καίτοι Γρηγορίῳ τῷ μεγάλῳ θεολόγῳ τῶν τοῦ Υἱοῦ προσηγοριῶν πασῶν καί πολλάκις ἀπηριθμημένων καί οὐκ ἀπηριθμημένων μόνον ἀλλά καί τεθεωρημένων; Ὅς καί τό "μονογενής" ἐξηγούμενος, «οὐχ ὅτι», φησί, «μόνος ἐκ μόνου καί μόνον, ἀλλά καί μονοτρόπως»˙ ὅ ἀλλαχοῦ μόνως εἶπε ἰδιοτρόπως, τοῦτ᾿ αὖθις ἐξηγούμενος. Τό δέ "μόνος" ὡς εἷς˙ τό δ᾿ "ἐκ μόνου" ὡς ἐν παρθενίᾳ γεννήσαντος, ταὐτό δ᾿ εἰπεῖν ὡς οὐκ ἀπό συζυγίας. Τό δέ "μόνον" τί ἄν ἄλλο εἴη ἤ ὅτι μόνος Υἱός, ἀλλ᾿ οὐχί καί Πατήρ οὐδέ προβολεύς; Εἰ δέ καί ὁ Πατήρ, Πατήρ μόνον λέγεται, εἰκότως - καί γάρ ἐκ Πατρός τό Πνεῦμα - καί Πατρός λέγεται Πνεῦμα καί ὁ Πατήρ καί τοῦ Πνεύματος λέγοιτ᾿ ἄν ὡς αἴτιος˙ Πατέρα γάρ τῶν φώτων τοῦτον εἶπεν ὁ μέγας Ἰάκωβος ὁ ἀδελφόθεος, τουτέστιν Υἱοῦ καί Πνεύματος, ὡς καί Ἀθανάσιος ὁ μέγας ἐξηγούμενος λέγει. Εἰ δέ τοῦτ᾿ οὕτως (σελ. 122) ἔχει, ὥσπερ οὖν ἔχει, λέγοιτ᾿ ἄν καί ὁ Υἱός Πατήρ φωτός, τουτέστι τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος, εἰ καί ἐξ αὐτοῦ κατά σέ τό Πνεῦμα.

Εἰ γοῦν ταῦτ᾿ ἦν ὀνομάσαι, οἷον Πατέρα φωτός ἤ προβολέα τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος, πῶς ἄν οὐχί τῶν ἄλλων αὐτοῦ σχεδόν πάντων ὀνομάτων ὁ μέγας ἐν θεολογίᾳ Γρηγόριος προὔθηκε, καίτοι τό πρός τόν Πατέρα ἀγωνιζόμενος δεικνύναι; ∆ιό φησιν˙ «εἰ μέγα τῷ Πατρί τῷ μηδαμόθεν ὡρμῆσθαι, οὐκ ἔλαττον τῷ Υἱῷ τό ἐκ τοιούτου Πατρός. Καί πρόσεστιν τῷ Υἱῷ τό τῆς γεννήσεως πρᾶγμα τοσοῦτον». Εἰ γοῦν προσῆεν τό προβολέα εἶναι, πῶς οὐκ ἄν εἶπε πρᾶγμα τοσοῦτον, δι᾿ ὅ καί μᾶλλον ἄν δεικύειν ἔδοξεν ἴσον τῷ Πατρί; Ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ εἶπεν˙ οὐκοῦν οὐδέ πρόσεστιν.

Ὁ γάρ μέγας οὗτος θεολόγος οὐδ᾿ ἁπλῶς οὕτω τό ἐκπορευόμενον ἴδιον τίθησι τοῦ Πνεύματος, ἀλλά τό ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός ἐκπορευόμενον, προορῶν δήπου καί προανατρέπων σου τήν δυσσεβῆ προσθήκην. Ἀνωτέρω γάρ μικρόν εἰπών, τόν μέν Πατέρα γεννήτορα καί προβολέα, τόν δέ Υἱόν προβολέα μέν οὐ, γέννημα δέ μόνον, προσϊών, ἡμεῖς δέ, φησίν, «ἐπί τῶν ἡμετέρων ὅρων ἱστάμενοι, τό ἀγέννητον εἰσάγομεν καί τό γεννητόν καί τό ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός ἐκπορευόμενον». Οὐκ εἶπε τό ἐκπορευόμενον ἁπλῶς ἴδιον τοῦ Πνεύματος ὑπάρχειν, ἵνα μή τις ἐκ τοῦ Υἱοῦ ἤ καί ἐκ τοῦ Υἱοῦ ἐκπορεύεσθαι νομίσῃ τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον˙ τό μέν γάρ γεννητόν συνεισάγει τῇ διανοίᾳ τόν Πατέρα, τό δέ ἐκπορευτόν οὐχ οὕτω. ∆ιά τοῦτο τό ἐκ Πατρός ἐκπορευόμενον ἴδιον τέθηκε τοῦ Πνεύματος˙ «τοῦτο γάρ», φησί καί Βασίλειος ὁ μέγας, «γνωριστικόν τῆς κατά τήν ὑπόστασιν ἰδιότητος σημεῖον ἔχει τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον, τό μετά τόν Υἱόν καί σύν αὐτῷ γνωρίζεσθαι καί ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός ὑφεστάναι». Ἀλλ᾿ ὁρᾷς, ὅπως παρ᾿ ἡμῶν (σελ. 124) δικαίως ἀπελήλασθε τῆς κοινωνίας, οὐκ ἐπί τῶν ἡμετέρων ὅρων καί τῆς εὐσεβείας ἱστάμενοι;

Ἤ γάρ καί τόν Υἱόν Πατέρα προσερεῖς, ὡς καί ἀνωτέρω δέδεικται, ἵν᾿ ἐκπορευόμενον εἴη σοι καί ἐξ αὐτοῦ τό Πνεῦμα, ἤ τό ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός ἐκπορεύεσθαι οὐκ ἄν ἴδιον εἴη σοι τοῦ Πνεύματος, οὐδέ τό ἐκπορεύειν ἴδιον εἶναι νομίσεις τοῦ