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he teaches in a psalm: "The voice of the Lord is upon the waters, the God of glory has thundered; the Lord is upon many waters;" and 39.684 in the 76th psalm." The voice of your thunder was in the wheel. Your lightnings lit up the world; the earth saw and was shaken." For through the waters it signifies baptism, in which there is, from the priests, as the same one sings in a psalm, "much work;" and through the thunder it alludes to the grace of baptism that has reached everywhere and was received with fear; and through the wheel, the unstable and strange life; and through the lightnings, the beauties according to God of those who are illuminated; and through the shaking of the earth it declares the moving with eagerness of humanity towards the knowledge of God. And when the Master was baptized in the economy, in order to put to death the dragon, who received the Jordan in his mouth upon the waters, as Job recounts enigmatically, and to wipe away our filth, and to forgive the old sin, and to make us tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy, and at the same time also to teach all that regeneration is salvation for men; the Holy Spirit was present, as was the Father. For the one from the heavens testified to the 39.685 genuineness of his own offspring; but the Holy Spirit, when the heavens were opened to him, as to a king and one who is above the nature of angels, having come down, remained upon the Son of God. For it says: "Behold, the heavens were opened, and I saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove." Understand, then, what the Holy Spirit is, seeing that it makes us, his own temple, to be seated with, and glorified with, and to reign with the most high God, and when it remains upon the only-begotten God; and if heretics piously say that it is not seated with, and worshipped with, and does not reign with God the Father. But let the Holy Spirit of God not be thought of as being seated with, and glorified with, and reigning with God in the same way as us, who are created, and in such nakedness of good works hope for such great things; but as his Spirit, and by nature God and King and eternally seated with, and being full of immaculate glory. For the created, by grace after the resurrection, will be deemed worthy of these things, enjoying the good things of the kingdom, but not being kings. For Scripture knows one glory of the sun, and another of the moon and stars; and of these again a different glory. "For star," it says, "differs from star in glory." And the eye of the body is more honorable than the other members; yet it too is body; so that we who have been renewed enjoy so much of the divine intimacy as the power of our nature allows, as they say. How could the mortal race equal God. And Peter, extolling baptism, since the Holy Spirit who re-creates us is God, proclaimed a universal proclamation through his first Epistle, declaring this: "Having been born again, not of 39.688 corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living and abiding word of God." For he feared the one who commanded in the Gospel according to Mark: "Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He who has believed and has been baptized will be saved; but he who has disbelieved will be condemned." And what is the proclamation? "Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." which Paul also, observing, wrote: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God the Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all." Which spiritual communion the Catholic writings also previously named thus: "That you may become partakers of the divine nature." And who are the unbelieving, and for this reason condemned? Those who do not keep this equality of honor of the Holy Trinity; to whom he also again commanded through Paul in the epistle to the Galatians: "There are some who trouble you, wishing to pervert the Gospel of Christ; but even if an angel from heaven you

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ψαλμῷ διδάσκει· "Φωνὴ Κυρίου ἐπὶ τῶν ὑδάτων, ὁ Θεὸς τῆς δόξης ἐβρόντησεν· Κύριος ἐπὶ ὑδάτων πολλῶν·" καὶ 39.684 ἐν ο ϛʹ ψαλμῷ." Φωνὴ τῆς βροντῆς σου ἐν τῷ τροχῷ. Ἔφαναν αἱ ἀστραπαί σου τῇ οἰκουμένῃ· ἴδεν, καὶ ἐσαλεύθη ἡ γῆ." ∆ιὰ μὲν γὰρ τῶν ὑδάτων τὸ βάπτισμα σημαίνει, ἐν ᾧ γίνεται παρὰ τῶν ἱερέων, καθὰ ψαλμῳδεῖ ὁ αὐτὸς, "ἐργασία πολλή·" διὰ δὲ τῆς βροντῆς τὴν πανταχοῦ φθάσασαν καὶ μετὰ φόβου ὑποδεχθεῖσαν χάριν τοῦ βαπτίσματος αἰνίττεται· διὰ δὲ τοῦ τροχοῦ, τὸν ἄστατον καὶ ἀλλόκοτον βίον· διὰ δὲ τῶν ἀστραπῶν, τὰ κατὰ Θεὸν κάλλη τῶν φωτιζομένων· διὰ δὲ τοῦ σαλευθῆναι τὴν γῆν τὸ κινηθῆναι σὺν προθυμίᾳ τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα εἰς θεογνωσίαν δηλοῖ. Καὶ τοῦ ∆εσπότου δὲ βαπτιζομένου ἐν τῇ οἰκονομίᾳ ἐπὶ τῷ τόν τε δράκοντα, τὸν ἐπὶ τοῖς ὕδασι δεξάμενον τὸν Ἰορδάνην, ἐν τῷ στόματι, ὡς ἱστορεῖ αἰνιγματωδῶς ὁ Ἰὼβ, θανατῶσαι, τόν τε ἡμέτερον ἀποσμῆξαι ῥύπον, καὶ τὴν παλαιὰν συγχωρῆσαι ἁμαρτίαν, καὶ ποιῆσαι πατεῖν ἐπάνω ὄφεων καὶ σκορπίων, καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ ἐχθροῦ, ἅμα δὲ καὶ διδάξαι πάντας, τὴν παλιγγενεσίαν ἀνθρώποις εἶναι σωτηρίαν· παρῆν τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, ὡς ὁ Πατήρ. Ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἐξ οὐρανῶν ἐμαρτύρει τῇ 39.685 γνησιότητι τοῦ οἰκείου τόκου· τὸ δὲ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, ἀνοιχθέντων αὐτῷ, ὡς βασιλεῖ καὶ ἀνωτέρω τῆς ἀγγέλων φύσεως ὄντι, τῶν οὐρανῶν, κατελθὸν, ἐπέμενεν ἐπὶ τὸν Υἱὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ. Φησὶν γάρ· "Ἰδοὺ ἀνεῴχθησαν οἱ οὐρανοὶ, καὶ ἴδον τὸ Πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ καταβαῖνον ὡς περιστεράν." Νόει οὖν, τί ἐστιν τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, ἅτε τὸν ἑαυτοῦ ναὸν, ἡμᾶς, τῷ ὑψίστῳ Θεῷ συγκαθεσθῆναι, καὶ συνδοξασθῆναι, καὶ συμβασιλεῦσαι ποιεῖ, καὶ ὅτε μένει ἐπὶ τὸν μονογενῆ Θεόν· καὶ εἰ ὁσίως λέγουσιν αἱρετικοὶ μὴ συγκαθέζεσθαι αὐτὸ, καὶ συμπροσκυνεῖσθαι, καὶ συμβασιλεύειν τῷ Θεῷ Πατρί. Μὴ ὁμοίως δὲ ἡμῶν, τῶν κτιστῶν, καὶ ἐν τοσαύτῃ ἀγαθῶν ἔργων γυμνότητι τηλικαῦτα ἐλπιζόντων, νοηθείη τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ συγκαθέζεσθαι, καὶ συνδοξάζεσθαι, καὶ συμβασιλεύειν τῷ Θεῷ· ἀλλ' ὡς Πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ, καὶ φύσει Θεὸς καὶ Βασιλεὺς καὶ ἀϊδίως συγκαθεζόμενος, καὶ πλήρης ἀχράντου δόξης ὑπάρχων. Οἱ γὰρ κτιστοὶ, κατὰ χάριν μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν τούτων ἀξιωθήσονται, ἀπολαύοντες τῶν ἀγαθῶν τῆς βασιλείας, οὐκ ὄντες δὲ βασιλεῖς. Οἶδεν γὰρ ἡ Γραφὴ, ἄλλην μὲν ἡλίου δόξαν, ἄλλην δὲ σελήνης καὶ ἀστέρων· καὶ τούτων πάλιν διάφορον δόξαν. "Ἀστὴρ γὰρ," φησὶν, "ἀστέρος διαφέρει ἐν δόξῃ." Καὶ ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς τοῦ σώματος τῶν ἄλλων μελῶν τιμιώτερός ἐστι· πλὴν καὶ αὐτὸς σῶμά ἐστιν· ὥστε τοσοῦτον ἡμᾶς ἀνακαινισθέντας τῆς θείας ἀπολαύειν οἰκειότητος, ὅσον ἡ τῆς ἡμετέρας φύσεως ἐνδέχεται δύναμις, καθὼς λέγουσιν. Ὁπόσον ἡμέριόν κε Θεῷ γένος ἰσάζοιτο. Καὶ Πέτρος ἐκθειάζων τὸ βάπτισμα, ὡς Θεοῦ ὄντος τοῦ ἀνακτίζοντος ἡμᾶς ἁγίου Πνεύματος, καθολικὸν διὰ τῆς πρώτης Ἐπιστολῆς ἐξεφώνησε κήρυγμα, διαγορεῦον ταυτί· "Ἀναγεγεννημένοι, οὐκ ἐκ σπορᾶς 39.688 φθαρτῆς, ἀλλ' ἀφθάρτου, διὰ λόγου ζῶντος Θεοῦ καὶ μένοντος." Ἐδεδοίκει γὰρ τὸν παρακελευσάμενον ἐν τῷ κατὰ Μάρκον Εὐαγγελίῳ· "Πορευθέντες εἰς τὸν κόσμον πάντα, κηρύξατε τὸ Εὐαγγέλιον πάσῃ τῇ κτίσει. Ὁ πιστεύσας καὶ βαπτισθεὶς σωθήσεται· ὁ δὲ ἀπιστήσας κατακριθήσεται." Τί δὲ τὸ κήρυγμά ἐστιν; "Πορευθέντες μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, βαπτίζοντες αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρὸς, καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ, καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος." Ὅπερ καὶ Παῦλος φυλάττων ἔγραψεν· "Ἡ χάρις τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, καὶ ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρὸς, καὶ ἡ κοινωνία τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος, μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν." Ἥντινα πνευματικὴν κοινωνίαν καὶ τὰ Καθολικὰ προκατωνόμασεν χαράγματα οὕτως· "Ἵνα γένησθε θείας κοινωνοὶ φύσεως." Τίνες δὲ οἱ ἀπιστοῦντες, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο κατακρινόμενοις; Οἱ ταύτην μὴ φυλάττοντες τὴν ἰσοτιμίαν τῆς ἁγίας Τριάδος· οἷστισι καὶ αὖθις διὰ Παύλου παρήγγειλεν ἐν τῇ πρὸς Γαλάτας ἐπιστολῇ· "Εἰσί τινες, οἵτινες ὑμᾶς θορυβοῦσι, θέλοντες στρέψαι τὸ Εὐαγγέλιον Χριστοῦ· ἀλλ' εἰ καὶ ἄγγελος ὑμᾶς ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ