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misunderstanding, and not harmonizing, according to [their] ability, the unclear things with the wise, and the things said in secret with those spoken openly.

Now let us recapitulate the present argument, and then let us add what is lacking. First, then, it has been demonstrated to be entirely empty the addition's

decision of these men. Then it has been shown that "alone" is implied, when it is said "from the Father"

the Holy Spirit proceeds; since even in the same Creed, hearing that the Son is begotten of the Father, we accept without any contradiction that "alone" is implied.

To this we add the following: that even if it were unobjectionable to say the Spirit is also from the Son, it ought not to have been added to the Creed by the Latins. For even if hereafter it should appear to be correct, it should not be added; for by our own [fathers], although all had assembled and examined together, even the leaders of old Rome themselves, nothing of what had appeared to be pious was added.

And from this it appeared to be just first to demand that they remove the addition and not, on account of the preeminence of the present pope, to reject those who concluded their life with an end witnessed by God, and then to endure to discuss it with them.

After this we say to those who listen to the arguments with good judgment, that hearing that both are from the Father, we are to understand "from alone" as implied, even if it is not spoken along with it.

(Σελ. 170) But also in saying the Spirit is from the Father by procession, we apply "to proceed" to the paternal hypostasis; for the essence of the three is in every way and entirely one, but it is not possible for the Son to have the properties of the paternal hypostasis; therefore the Spirit is not also from the Son.

After this it was shown that those who think in the Latin manner can no longer think of the two persons of the Godhead as from one, since they place the cause in two persons, and these differently, nor indeed to speak of one God because of such a reference to the one; for not even is one man a grandfather, and a father, and a son, according to the wise prelate of Nyssa, since the cause is referred to two persons. And in addition to this we have shown that, just as there are two effects, since they themselves say the effect is in two persons.

And in addition to these, since according to the divinely wise theologians, as the Son is from the Father, so also is the Spirit, except for being begotten and proceeding, if the Son is immediately and not also from the Spirit, but from the Father alone, then the Spirit too is from the Father immediately, but not also from the Son.

We have additionally demonstrated that, since the Spirit is also called the mind of Christ, just as is the own mind of each of us, according to energy it is of Him and from Him, but according to hypostasis it is naturally His, but not from Him, but from the Father alone.

In addition to this, it was shown that the Spirit is from the Father not by grace, but by nature, having His existence from the Father alone.

And from the fact that each has all the things of the Father, without the unbegottenness and the begetting and the procession according to the theologians.

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ἐκλαμβάνοντα κακῶς, καί μή τοῖς σοφέσι τά ἀσαφῆ καί τοῖς παρρησίᾳ εἰρημένοις τά ἐν τῷ κρυπτῷ συμβιβάζοντα πρός δύναμιν.

Νῦν δ᾿ἀνακεφαλαιωσώμεθα τόν νῦν λόγον, κἆθ᾿ οὕτω τά λείποντα προσθῶμεν. Πρῶτον μέν οὖν ἐξελήλεκται κενή τυγχάνουσα παντάπασιν ἡ τῆς προσθήκης

τούτων ἀπόφασις. Ἔπειτα δέδεικται συνυπακουόμενον τό "μόνου", ὅταν λέγηται παρά τοῦ Πατρός

ἐκπορευόμενον τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον˙ ἐπεί κἀν τῷ αὐτῷ συμβόλῳ παρά τοῦ Πατρός ἀκούοντες γεννηθέντα τόν Υἱόν, ἐκτός ἀντιλογίας πάσης δεχόμεθα συνυπακουόμενον τό "μόνου".

Τούτῳ συνείρομεν ἑξῆς˙ ὡς εἰ καί ἀνεπιλήπτως εἶχε τό λέγειν καί ἐκ τοῦ Υἱοῦ τό Πνεῦμα, τῷ συμβόλῳ προστεθεῖσθαι παρά Λατίνων οὐκ ἐχρῆν. Ἐπεί κἄν εὖ ἔχον εἰς τό ἑξῆς ἀναφανῇ, προσθετέον οὐκ ἄν εἴη˙ καί τοῖς πρός ἡμῶν γάρ, καίτοι συνεληλυθόσι καί συνεξητακόσι πᾶσι καί αὐτοῖς τοῖς τῆς παλαιᾶς Ρώμης προεστῶσιν, οὐδέν τῶν ἀναφανέντων εὐσεβῶς ἔχειν προσετέθη.

Κἀντεῦθεν ἀνεφάνη τῶν δικαίων ὄν πρῶτον ἀπαιτεῖν αὐτούς τήν προσθήκην ἐξελεῖν καί μή διά τήν περιωπήν τοῦ περιόντος πάπα τούς μεμαρτυρημένῳ παρά Θεοῦ τέλει κατακλείσαντας τόν βίον ἀποστέργειν, εἶται συζητεῖν μετ᾿ αὐτῶν ἀνέχεσθαι περί αὐτῆς.

Μετά τοῦτο πρός τούς εὐγνωμόνως τῶν λόγων ἀκροωμένους λέγομεν, ὡς καί ἀμφότερα ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός ἀκούοντες, ἔχομεν συνυπακούειν τό "ἐκ μόνου", κἄν μή συνεκφωνῆται.

(Σελ. 170) Ἀλλά καί ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός ἐκπορευτῶς τό Πνεῦμα λέγοντες τό ἐκπορεύειν τῇ πατρικῇ ὑποστάσει ἐφαρμόζομεν˙ ἡ γάρ οὐσία πάντῃ τε καί πάντως μία τῶν τριῶν, οὐκ ἔνι δέ τά τῆς πατρικῆς ὑποστάσεως ἔχειν τόν Υἱόν˙ ὥστε οὐχί καί ἐκ τοῦ Υἱοῦ τό Πνεῦμα.

Μετά τοῦτο ἐξηλέχθησαν οἱ λατινικῶς φρονοῦντες μηκέτι ἐξ ἑνός δύνασθαι τά δύο πρόσωπα τῆς θεότητος φρονεῖν, ὡς ἐν δυσί προσώποις τό αἴτιον τιθέμενοι καί ταῦτα διαφόρως, ἀλλ᾿ οὐδέ Θεόν ἕνα λέγειν διά τήν τοιαύτην πρός τό ἕν ἀναφοράν˙ οὐδέ γάρ εἷς ἄνθρωπος πάππος, πατήρ τε καί υἱός, κατά τόν σοφόν τῆς Νύσσης πρόεδρον, ἐπειδήπερ εἰς δύο πρόσωπα τό αἴτιον ἀναφέρεται. Καί πρός τούτῳ παρεστήσαμεν, ὡς, καθάπερ δύο τά αἰτιατά, ἐπειδήπερ τό αἰτιατόν ἐν δυσίν φασιν αὐτοί προσώποις.

Πρός δέ τούτοις, ἐπεί κατά τούς θεοσόφους θεολόγους, ὡς ὁ Υἱός ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός ἐστιν, οὕτω καί τό Πνεῦμα, πλήν τοῦ γεννητῶς τε καί ἐκπορευτῶς, εἰ ὁ Υἱός ἀμέσως καί οὐχί καί ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματος, ἀλλ᾿ ἐκ μόνου τοῦ Πατρός, καί τό Πνεῦμα ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός ἀμέσως, ἀλλ᾿ οὐχί καί ἐκ τοῦ Υἱοῦ.

Προσαπεδείξαμεν ὡς, ἐπεί καί νοῦς λέγεται Χριστοῦ τό Πνεῦμα, καθάπερ καί ἡμῶν ἑκάστου ὁ οἰκεῖος, κατά μέν τήν ἐνέργειαν αὐτοῦ ἐστι καί ἐξ αὐτοῦ, κατά δέ τήν ὑπόστασιν αὐτοῦ μέν ἐστι φυσικῶς, ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ ἐξ αὐτοῦ, ἀλλ᾿ ἐκ μόνου τοῦ Πατρός.

Πρός τούτῳ μή χάριτι, φύσει δέ εἶναι ἐκ Πατρός τό Πνεῦμα, ἐκ μόνου τοῦ Πατρός ἔχειν τήν ὕπαρξιν ἐδείχθη.

Καί ἀπό τοῦ πάντα ἔχειν ἑκάτερον τά τοῦ Πατρός, ἄνευ τῆς ἀγεννησίας καί τῆς γεννήσεως κάι τῆς ἐκπορεύσεως κατά τούς θεολόγους.