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Therefore, with respect to God, being sent and being given is nothing other than being manifested. For the Latins, therefore, who dogmatize such an eternal sending-forth from the Son, it follows that they also hold the manifestation of the Spirit to be eternal; but it is necessary that those to whom the manifestation is directed also be co-eternal, and moreover, that not even so is the existence of the divine Spirit and of the Son demonstrated.

But if they say that they conjecture existence from the manifestation, we, however, not following conjectures, but by divinely inspired oracles, have enriched the confession of faith. And we know that the Holy Spirit itself comes and is manifested from itself, but not for this reason will we grant that it proceeds from itself; he therefore who gives or sends the Holy Spirit does not cause it to proceed by the fact of sending, but makes it manifest. For the Lord also did this, before his own ascension, manifesting the Spirit moderately to his own disciples through their common grace, which also came from them, given moderately at that time; which is also the original cause, as I would say, of the soul of man being created by an in-breathing.

For since both the speaking Father and his almighty Word were proclaimed in the creation of all things, but a manifestation of the Spirit had not yet occurred, and it was necessary, when man came into being, that none of the persons of the Trinity—of which he was formed an initiate and an earthly worshipper—should be unknown, for this reason to both the word and the one speaking—which is the same as to say, to the Son and to the Father—is added the [word] “he breathed into,” revealing the hypostasis of the (p. 218) Spirit; which the Lord also did in renewing us; for with the Son being present, the Father was shown immediately, and through the in-breathing the Spirit was proclaimed; of whom our formation in the beginning is a common work, as is the later grace of re-creation.

Thus, therefore, the only-begotten Son of the Father, having appeared on earth for our sake and in our likeness, before his own ascension moderately manifested the hypostasis of the Holy Spirit through the gift of in-breathing to the disciples, hinting at this and measuring out the teaching to the capacity of those receiving it; but after his own ascension he sent the one who comes, himself manifesting most perfectly that which is also manifested from itself, and is itself shown on its own in its own hypostasis. For this indeed is also the mystery of the economy, that God be believed as one and three, and that the One is the sole common cause of the Two. For this reason every gift and power is common to them, but they divide the time among themselves, each one being manifested individually and always manifesting the remaining ones with itself.

First the Father was manifested, giving by grace to the prophets the glories of the divine nature, the properties of the Godhead, its natural and essential energies, so that he might show at the same time that he subsists in himself and that he is not himself from another, but is himself the principle of the Godhead; and indeed also showing the others as being from him and united to him, he is proclaimed before all things as creating by in-breathing and by word.

After him the Son was manifested, [giving] the same glories of the same nature, the properties of the Godhead, its natural and essential energies, from which are the gifts of healings, the workings of powers, and things similar to these, giving them by grace to his own disciples, so that he too might show at the same time that he subsists in himself (for that which does not subsist in itself is unable to have or to provide energies) and (p. 220) that he is not himself the principle, but is himself from the principle. And so through himself, on the one hand, the

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Οὐκοῦν οὐδέν ἄλλο τό πέμπεσθαί τε καί δίδοσθαι ἐπί Θεοῦ ἤ τό φανεροῦσθαι. Λατίνοις οὖν ἀΐδιον τήν παρά τοῦ Υἱοῦ τοιαύτην ἐμπεμψιν δογματίζουσι καί φανέρωσιν τοῦ Πνεύματος ἀΐδιον δοξάζειν ἀκόλουθον˙ ἀνάγκη δέ συναϊδίους εἶναι καί τούς πρός οὕς ἡ φανέρωσις καί πρόσεστι τό μηδ᾿ οὕτω τήν ὕπαρξιν τοῦ θείου Πνεύματος καί τοῦ Υἱοῦ δείκνυσθαι.

Εἰ δ᾿ ἐκ τῆς φανερώσεως στοχάζεσθαί φασιν ἐκεῖνοι τήν ὕπαρξιν, ἀλλ᾿ ἡμεῖς οὐ στοχασμοῖς ἀκολουθοῦντες, ἀλλά θεολέκτοις λογίοις τήν ὁμολογίαν τῆς πίστεως πεπλουτήκαμεν. Ἴσμεν δέ καί αὐτό παρ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον ἐρχόμενόν τε καί φανερούμενον, ἀλλ᾿ οὐ διά τοῦτο καί παρ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ δώσομεν ἐκπορεύεσθαι˙ ὁ διδούς τοίνυν ἤ πέμπων τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον οὐκ ἐκπορεύει διά τό πέμπειν, ἀλλά φανερόν καθίστησιν αὐτό. Τοῦτο γάρ καί ὁ Κύριος ἐποίησε πρό μέν τῆς οἰκείας ἀναλήψεως φανερώσας μετρίως τοῖς οἰκείοις μαθηταῖς τό Πνεῦμα διά τῆς κοινῆς αὐτῶν καί παρ᾿ αὐτῶν μετρίας τηνικαῦτα δεδομένης χάριτος˙ ὅ καί τήν ἀρχήν αἴτιον, ὡς ἔγωγ᾿ ἄν φαίην, τοῦ δι᾿ ἐμφυσήματος δεδημιουργεῖσθαι τήν ἀνθρώπου ψυχήν.

Ἐπεί γάρ ὅ τε λέγων Πατήρ καί ὁ τούτου παντοδύναμος Λόγος πάντων κτιζομένων ἐκηρύττοντο, ἔκφανσις δέ Πνεύματος οὐ γέγονέ πω, ἔδει δέ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου γενομένου μηδέν τῶν τῆς Τριάδος προσώπων ἀνεπίγνωστον εἶναι, ἧς ἐπλάττετο μύστης καί προσκυνητής ἐπίγειος, διά τοῦτο τῷ τε λόγῳ καί τῷ λέγοντι, ταὐτόν δέ εἰπεῖν τῷ Υἱῷ καί τῷ γεννήτορι, προσεπιφέρεται τό «ἐνεφύσησεν», ἀνακαλύπτον τήν τοῦ (σελ. 218) Πνεύματος ὑπόστασιν˙ ὅ καί ὁ Κύριος ἀνανεῶν ἡμᾶς ἐποίησεν˙ Υἱοῦ γάρ ὄντος, αὐτόθεν ὁ Πατήρ ἐδείκνυτο καί δι᾿ ἐμφυσήματος τό Πνεῦμα ἐκηρύττετο˙ ὧν κοινόν ἔργον ἥ τε τήν ἀρχήν ἡμῶν πλάσις, ἥ τ᾿ ἐς ὕστερον χάρις τῆς ἀναπλάσεως.

Οὕτως οὖν δι᾿ ἡμᾶς καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς ἐπί γῆς ὀφθείς ὁ τοῦ Πατρός μονογενής Υἱός, πρό μέν τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ἀναλήψεως τήν τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος ὑπόστασιν ἐφανέρωσε μετρίως διά τοῦ πρός τούς μαθητάς δι᾿ ἐμφυσήματος δώρου τοῦτο ὑπαινιττόμενος καί τῇ τῶν δεχομένων δυνάμει τήν διδασκαλίαν παραμετρούμενος˙ μετά δέ τήν οἰκείαν ἀνάληψιν ἔπεμψε τόν ἐρχόμενον, αὐτός τε αὐτό φανερῶν τελεώτατα τό καί ἀφ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ φανερούμενον, καί αὐτό ἐφ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ δεικνύμενον κατ᾿ ἰδίαν ὑπόστασιν. Τοῦτο γάρ δή καί τό τῆς οἰκονομίας μυστήριον, ἕν καί τρία τόν Θεόν πιστευθῆναι καί κοινόν αἴτιον μόνον τῶν δύο τό ἕν. ∆ιά τοῦτο κοινή μέν αὐτοῖς πᾶσα δόσις καί δύναμις, μερίζονται δέ ἑαυτοῖς τόν καιρόν ἰδίᾳ φανερούμενον ἕκαστον καί σύν ἑαυτῷ φανεροῦν ἀεί τά ὑπόλοιπα.

Πρῶτον πεφανέρωται ὁ Πατήρ, τῆς θείας φύσεως αὐχήματα, τά τῆς θεότητος ἰδιώματα, τάς φυσικάς καί οὐσιώδεις αὐτῆς ἐνεργείας τοῖς προφήταις κατά χάριν διδούς, ὡς ἀν ἅμα τε δείξῃ καθ᾿ ἑαυτόν ὑφεστώς καί οὐκ αὐτόν ὤν ἐξ ἄλλου, ἀλλ᾿ αὐτός ὤν ἀρχή τῆς θεότητος˙ καί δή καί τ᾿ ἄλλα δεικνύς ἐξ αὐτοῦ τε ὄντα καί αὐτῷ συνημμένα, πρό πάντων ἐμφυσήματι καί λόγῳ δημιουργῶν καταγγέλλεται.

Μετ᾿ αὐτόν ὁ Υἱός πεφανέρωται, τά αὐτά τῆς αὐτῆς φύσεως αὐχήματα, τά τῆς θεότητος ἰδιώματα, τάς φυσικάς καί οὐσιώδεις αὐτῆς ἐνεργείας, παρ᾿ ὧν τά χαρίσματα τῶν ἰαμάτων, τά ἐνεργήματα δυνάμεων καί τά παραπλήσια τούτοις τοῖς οἰκείοις μαθηταῖς κατά χάριν διδούς, ὡς ἄν καί αὐτός ἅμα τε δείξῃ κεθ᾿ ἑαυτόν ὑφεστώς (τό γάρ μή καθ᾿ ἑαυτό ὑφεστώς ἐνεργείας ἔχειν ἤ παρέχειν ἀδύνατον) καί (σελ. 220) οὐκ αὐτός ὤν ἀρχή, ἀλλ᾿ αὐτός ἐξ ἀρχῆς. Καί οὕτω δι᾿ ἑαυτοῦ μέν τόν