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Therefore, the divine powers and energies are common to the one holy and worshipful Trinity, through which God dwells and walks among the worthy according to the promise, being active and known through them. Of which divine energies not only the Father and the Son are called the source, but also the Holy Spirit, as also the great Basil says, writing in his controversial chapters *On the Holy Spirit*: "But what are the energies of the Spirit? Ineffable for their greatness, and innumerable for their multitude." And again: "with the Holy Spirit all things are perfect: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, wisdom, understanding, counsel, security, piety, knowledge, sanctification, redemption, faith, workings of powers, gifts of healing, and whatever is similar to these, having nothing acquired in Himself but possessing all things eternally, as the Spirit of God and manifested from Him, having a cause for Himself as His own source and springing from thence. And He is Himself the source of the aforementioned goods. But that which springs from God is hypostatic, while the things which spring from Him are His energies." These are the glories that are the distinguishing marks of the divine nature.

Therefore, our Lord Jesus Christ, wishing to show Himself consubstantial in His divinity with the Father and the Spirit, Himself gives by grace to the disciples this natural energy of the Godhead, just as the Father previously (206) bestowed some of these energies upon the prophets; and the Holy Spirit, having descended after the Savior's ascension, also Himself gave such energies to the disciples, being shown through them to be Himself consubstantial with the Father and the Son. Common, therefore, and many are the divine gifts from the one holy and worshipful Trinity to us, and the giving of them, but the procession of the Holy Spirit is one and is the Father's own and pre-eternal.

But that I may also seal this defense and that "every mouth that speaks against it may be stopped," having shown that the very Word of truth of the present discourse speaks in concert with us according to those before us, I will put Him forward as a witness of the truth. He Himself who is in no way separated, ascending from earth to the heavenly Father, to those who had remained with Him until the end "commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which," He says, "you have heard from me." But what is the promise? That "you will be baptized," He says, "with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now." Therefore, before the Savior's ascension, they had not yet received the promise; so it was not through the inbreathing that the Holy Spirit was given, for this is the promise. When, then, did the disciples hear these things which the Savior promised? When He was about to die willingly for us—oh, the greatness of His disposition toward us—He not only gave Himself over to the slaughter for us, but He also made us heirs in His will of His own possessions and opened and delivered to us the treasures and the one who is of the same nature and has ascended above all creation, the inexhaustible wealth of the Spirit; "For I," He says, "will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever." Then, a little later, "But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things."

(p. 208) Then again, after those sweet counsels, after the soul-guiding words, after the exhortations to guard the wealth, "When," He says, "the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness about me." Did you see the

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Κοιναί μέν οὖν τῇ μόνῃ ἁγίᾳ καί προσκυνητῇ Τριάδι αἵ τε θεῖαι δυνάμεις καί αἱ ἐνέργειαι, δι᾿ ὧν ὁ Θεός ἐνοικεῖ καί ἐμπεριπατεῖ τοῖς ἀξίοις κατά τήν ἐπαγγελίαν, δι᾿ αὐτῶν ἐνργῶν τε καί γνωριζόμενος. Ὧνπερ θείων ἐνργειῶν καί πηγή θεολογεῖται μή μόνον ὁ Πατήρ καί ὁ Υἱός, ἀλλά καί τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον, ὡς καί ὁ μέγας φησί Βασίλειος ἐν τοῖς Περί τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἀντιρρητικοῖς αὐτοῦ κεφαλαίοις γράφων˙ «αἱ δέ ἐνέργειαι τοῦ Πνεύματος τίνες; Ἄρρητοι μέν διά τό μέγεθος, ἀνεξαρίθμητοι δέ διά τό πλῆθος». Καί πάλιν˙ «παρά τῷ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι πάντα τέλεια˙ ἀγάπη, χαρά, εἰρήνη, μακροθυμία, χρηστότης, σοφία, σύνεσις, βουλή, ἀσφάλεια, εὐσέβεια, γνῶσις, ἁγιασμός, ἀπολύτρωσις, πίστις, ἐνργήματα δυνάμεων, χαρίσματα ἰαμάτων, καί ὅσα τούτοις παραπλήσια, οὐδέν ἔχον τι ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἐπίκτητον ἀλλ᾿ ἀϊδίως πάντα ἔχον, ὡς Πνεῦμα Θεοῦ καί ἐξ αὐτοῦ πεφηνός, αἴτιον ἑαυτῷ ἔχον ὡς πηγήν ἑαυτοῦ κἀκεῖθεν πηγάζον. Πηγή δέ καί αὐτό τῶν προειρημένων ἀγαθῶν. Ἀλλά τό μέν ἐκ Θεοῦ πηγάζον ἐνυπόστατόν ἐστι, τά δέ ἐξ αὐτοῦ πηγάζοντα ἐνέργειαι αὐτοῦ εἰσι». Ταῦτα δέ εἰσι τά γνωριστικά τῆς θείας φύσεως αὐχήματα.

Θέλων οὖν ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός ὁμοούσιον ἑαυτόν δεῖξαι κατά τήν θεότητα τῷ Πατρί καί τῷ Πνεύματι, τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτός ταύτην κατά χάριν δίδωσι τήν φυσικήν τῆς θεότητος ἐνέργειαν, ὡς καί ὁ Πατήρ πρότερον (206) ἐνίας τῶν τοιούτων ἐνεργειῶν τοῖς προφήταις παρέσχε˙ καί τό Πνεῦμα δέ τό ἅγιον κατελθόν μετά τήν τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἄνοδον, καί αὐτό τάς τοιαύτας ἐνεργείας ἔδωκε τοῖς μαθηταῖς, δι᾿ αὐτῶν καί αὐτό δεικνύμενον ὁμοούσιον τῷ Πατρί καί τῷ Υἱῷ. Κοινά μέν οὖν καί πολλά τῇ μόνῃ ἁγίᾳ καί προσκυνητῇ Τριάδι τά πρός ἡμᾶς ἐξ αὐτῆς θεῖα δόματα καί ἡ τούτων δόσις, ἡ δέ τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἐκπόρευσις μία καί τοῦ Πατρός ἰδία καί προαιώνιος.

Ἀλλ᾿ ἵνα καί τήν ἀπολογίαν ἐπισφραγίσωμαι καί «πᾶν στόμα τό ἀντιτεῖνον φραγῇ», αὐτόν τόν τῆς ἀληθείας λόγον τοῦ νυνί λόγου κατά τούς πρό ἡμῶν συμφθεγγόμενον ἡμῖν δείξας προβαλοῦμαι μάρτυρα τῆς ἀληθείας. Αὐτός δέ ὁ μηδαμόθεν χωριζόμενος, γῆθεν πρός τόν ἐπουράνιον Πατέρα ἀνιών, τοῖς διαμεμενηκόσιν εἰς τέλος μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ «παρήγγειλεν ἀπό Ἱεροσολύμων μή χωρίζεσθαι, ἀλλά περιμένειν τήν ἐπαγγελίαν τοῦ Πατρός ἥν ἠκούσατέ μου», φησίν. Ἀλλά τίς ἡ ἐπαγγελία; Ὅτι «βαπτισθήσεσθε», φησίν, «ἐν Πνεύματι ἁγίῳ, οὐ μετά πολλάς ταύτας ἡμέρας». Οὐκοῦν πρό τῆς τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἀναλήψεως οὔπω τῆς ἐπαγγελίας ἔτυχον˙ οὐκ ἄρα διά τοῦ ἐμφυσήματος τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον ἐδόθη, τοῦτο γάρ ἡ ἐπαγγελία. Πότε δή τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἐπαγγειλαμένου ταῦτ᾿ ἤκουσαν οἱ μαθηταί; Ὅτε μέλλων ἐκών ὑπέρ ἡμῶν ἀποθνήσκειν - βαβαί τοῦ μεγέθους τῆς πρός ἡμᾶς διαθέσεως - οὐχ ἑαυτόν μόνον ὑπέρ ἡμῶν παρεδίδου τῇ σφαγῇ, ἀλλά καί κληρονόμους ἐνδιαθήκως ἐποιεῖτο τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὐτῷ καί τούς θησαυρούς ἡμῖν ἀνεώγνυ τε καί παρεδίδου καί αὐτόν τόν συμφυᾶ καί πᾶσαν κτίσιν ὑπεραναβεβηκότα, τόν ἀκένωτον πλοῦτον τοῦ Πνεύματος˙ «ἐγώ γάρ», φησίν, «ἐρωτήσω τόν Πατέρα καί ἄλλον παράκλητον δώσει ὑμῖν, ἵνα μένῃ μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν εἰς τόν αἰῶνα». Εἶτα μετ᾿ ὀλίγα, «ὁ δέ παράκλητος, τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον, ὅ πέμψει ὁ Πατήρ ἐν τῷ ὀνόματί μου, ἐκεῖνος ὑμᾶς διδάξει πάντα».

(σελ. 208) Εἶτ᾿ αὖθις μετά τάς γλυκείας ὑποθήκας ἐκείνας, μετά τούς ψυχαγωγοῦντας λόγους, μετά τάς πρός φυλακήν τοῦ πλούτου προτροπάς, «ὅταν ἔλθῃ», φησίν, «ὁ παράκλητος, ὅν ἐγώ πέμψω ὑμῖν παρά τοῦ Πατρός, τό Πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας, ὅ παρά τοῦ Πατρός ἐκπορεύεται, ἐκεῖνος μαρτυρήσει περί ἐμοῦ». Εἶδες τοῦ