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these are called 66.11 carnal. Therefore, to reject the works of the flesh, which are strongholds of sin, and to put to death the members of death through his grace, he commands us to receive the Holy Spirit which we did not have, which gives life to me who was long dead, which if I do not receive, I will 66.12 die; for without his Spirit everyone is dead. "If then his Spirit is in us, he who raised him from the dead will also give life to our mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in us." But, I think, both dwell in the just man, Christ and his Spirit. 67.1 And if Christ is believed to be from the Father, God from God, and the Spirit from Christ or from both, as Christ says, "who proceeds from the Father" and "this one will take from what is mine," and Christ from the Holy Spirit—"for that which is in her," he says, "is from the Holy Spirit," the voice of an angel—I understand the mystery that redeems me 67.2 by faith, by hearing alone, by love for the one who came to me. For God knows himself, Christ preaches himself, the Holy Spirit reveals himself to the saints; and in the holy scriptures a Trinity is proclaimed to us and is believed without prying, without contention, by the passwords 67.3 of hearing. From this faith comes the salvation of grace, "from faith, righteousness without the works of the law"; for it is written that from the hearing of faith 67.4 the Spirit of Christ is given to those who are being saved. And the universal faith is signified by the voices of the preachers, as I for my part think, being instructed from the scriptures; three holy things, three co-holy things; three existing things, three co-existing things; three formed things, three conformed things; three active things, three co-active things; three hypostatic things, three co-hypostatic things, existing with each other; this is called the holy Trinity, being three, one harmony, one divinity of the same essence, of the same divinity, of the same hypostasis, like from like, working an equality of grace of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. 67.5 But how this is, it is left for them to teach. "For no one knows the Father except the Son, nor the Son except the Father and anyone to whom the Son 67.6 reveals him"; and he reveals through the Holy Spirit. Therefore, these being three, either from him or by him or to him, are understood worthily by each as they reveal themselves, light, fire, spirit, and, I think, by other likenesses of visions, as the man who is ministered to is worthy. 67.7 Therefore, the same God who in the beginning said "Let there be light, and there was light," the visible light, is himself the one who enlightened us to see "the light," "the true light that enlightens every man coming into the world," "Send forth your light and your truth," David says. He is the Lord who said, "In the last days I will pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh, and their sons and their daughters will prophesy, and their young men will see visions," showing us three persons of holy ministry from a threefold hypostasis. 68.1 "I say therefore that Christ has become a minister of the circumcision for the sake of God's truth, to fulfill the promises," and that the Holy Spirit ministers with him. For we have received it thus from the divine scriptures: Christ is sent from the Father, the Holy Spirit is sent; Christ speaks in the saints, the Holy Spirit speaks; Christ heals, the Holy Spirit heals; Christ sanctifies, the Holy Spirit sanctifies; Christ baptizes in his name, the Holy Spirit 68.2 baptizes. Thus say the scriptures: "You will send forth your Spirit and you will renew the face of the earth," which is similar to saying 68.3 "You will send forth your word and melt them"; "And while they were ministering," it says, "to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said: 'Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them,'" which is similar to saying "But the Lord said,

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σαρκικοὶ 66.11 οὗτοι καλοῦνται. τοίνυν ἀθετεῖν τὰ ἔργα τῆς σαρκός, ὀχυρώματα ὄντα τῆς ἁμαρτίας, νεκροῦν δὲ τὰ μέλη τοῦ θανάτου διὰ τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ λαβεῖν τε πνεῦμα ἅγιον ὃ οὐκ εἴχομεν προστάσσει, τὸ ζωοποιοῦν ἐμὲ τὸν πάλαι τεθνηκότα, ὅπερ μὴ λαβὼν τεθνήξο66.12 μαι· δίχα γὰρ πνεύματος αὐτοῦ πᾶς νεκρός. «εἰ τοίνυν τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ ἐν ἡμῖν, ὁ ἐγείρας αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν ζωοποιήσει τὰ θνητὰ σώματα ἡμῶν διὰ τοῦ ἐνοικοῦντος αὐτοῦ πνεύματος ἐν ἡμῖν». ἀλλ', οἶμαι, ἀμφότερα κατοικεῖ ἐν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ τῷ δικαίῳ, ὁ Χριστὸς καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ. 67.1 Εἰ δὲ Χριστὸς ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς πιστεύεται θεὸς ἐκ θεοῦ καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα ἐκ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἢ παρ' ἀμφοτέρων ὥς φησιν ὁ Χριστός, «ὃ παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκπορεύεται» καί «οὗτος ἐκ τοῦ ἐμοῦ λήψεται», ὁ δὲ Χριστὸς ἐκ πνεύματος ἁγίου «τὸ γὰρ ἐν αὐτῇ» φησίν «ἐκ πνεύματος ἁγίου» ἀγγέλου φωνή, συνίω τὸ λυτρούμενόν με μυστήριον 67.2 πίστει ἀκοῇ μόνῃ φιλίᾳ τῇ πρὸς τὸν ἐλθόντα πρὸς ἐμέ. ἑαυτὸν γὰρ ὁ θεὸς γινώσκει, ἑαυτὸν Χριστὸς κηρύσσει, ἑαυτὸ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον δηλοῖ τοῖς ἁγίοις· ἐν γραφαῖς δὲ ἁγίαις τριὰς ἡμῖν καταγγέλλεται καὶ πιστεύεται ἀπεριέργως ἀφιλονείκως ἐκ συνθημάτων 67.3 ἀκοῆς. ἐκ πίστεως δὲ ταύτης ἡ σωτηρία τῆς χάριτος, «ἐκ πίστεως ἡ δικαιοσύνη χωρὶς ἔργων νόμου»· γέγραπται γὰρ ἐξ ἀκοῆς πίστεως 67.4 τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ Χριστοῦ δίδοσθαι τοῖς σῳζομένοις. πίστις δὲ ἡ καθόλου κηρύκων φωναῖς αὕτη σημαίνεται, ὡς ἔγωγε οἶμαι κατηχούμενος ἐκ γραφῶν· τρία ἅγια τρία συνάγια, τρία ὑπαρκτὰ τρία συνύπαρκτα, τρία ἔμμορφα τρία σύμμορφα, τρία ἐνεργὰ τρία συνεργά, τρία ἐνυπόστατα τρία συνυπόστατα ἀλλήλοις συνόντα· τριὰς αὕτη ἁγία καλεῖται, τρία ὄντα μία συμφωνία μία θεότης τῆς αὐτῆς οὐσίας τῆς αὐτῆς θεότητος τῆς αὐτῆς ὑποστάσεως, ὁμοία ἐξ ὁμοίου, ἰσότητα χάριτος ἐργαζομένη πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος 67.5 τὸ δὲ πῶς αὐτοῖς ἀπολείπεται διδάσκειν. «οὐδεὶς γὰρ οἶδε τὸν πατέρα εἰ μὴ ὁ υἱός, οὐδὲ τὸν υἱὸν εἰ μὴ ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ᾧ ἐὰν ὁ υἱὸς 67.6 ἀποκαλύψῃ»· ἀποκαλύπτει δὲ διὰ πνεύματος ἁγίου. οὐκοῦν ταῦτα τρία ὄντα ἢ ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἢ παρ' αὐτοῦ ἢ πρὸς αὐτόν, ἑκάστῳ ἀξίως νοούμενα καθὼς ἑαυτὰ ἀποκαλύπτει, φῶς πῦρ πνεῦμα καὶ ἄλλαις οἶμαι ὁράσεων ὁμοιώσεσι, καθὼς ἄξιος ὁ διακονούμενος ἄνθρωπος. 67.7 αὐτὸς τοίνυν ὁ θεὸς ὁ ἐν ἀρχῇ εἰπών «γενηθήτω φῶς, καὶ ἐγένετο φῶς» τὸ ὁρώμενον, αὐτὸς ὁ φωτίσας ἡμᾶς «τὸ φῶς» ἰδεῖν «τὸ ἀληθινὸν τὸ φωτίζον πάντα ἄνθρωπον ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον», «ἐξαπόστειλον τὸ φῶς σου καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειάν σου» ὁ ∆αυίδ φησιν αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ κύριος ὁ εἰπών «ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις ἐκχεῶ ἀπὸ τοῦ πνεύματός μου ἐπὶ πᾶσαν σάρκα καὶ προφητεύσουσιν οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτῶν καὶ αἱ θυγατέρες αὐτῶν καὶ οἱ νεανίσκοι αὐτῶν ὁράσεις ὄψονται», τρία πρόσωπα ἁγίας λειτουργίας δεικνὺς ἡμῖν ἐξ ὑποστάσεως οὔσης τριττῆς. 68.1 «Λέγω οὖν Χριστὸν διάκονον γεγενῆσθαι περιτομῆς ὑπὲρ ἀληθείας θεοῦ εἰς τὸ πληρῶσαι τὰς ἐπαγγελίας», συνδιακονεῖν δὲ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον. παρειλήφαμεν γὰρ ἐκ θείων γραφῶν οὕτως· ἀποστέλλεται ὁ Χριστὸς ἀπὸ πατρὸς ἀποστέλλεται τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον· λαλεῖ ἐν ἁγίοις Χριστὸς λαλεῖ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον· ἰᾶται Χριστὸς ἰᾶται τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον· ἁγιάζει Χριστὸς ἁγιάζει τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον· βαπτίζει Χριστὸς ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ βαπτίζει 68.2 τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον. οὕτως λέγουσιν αἱ γραφαί· «ἀποστελεῖς τὸ πνεῦμά σου καὶ ἀνακαινιεῖς τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς» ὅμοιον τῷ λέγειν 68.3 «ἐξαποστελεῖς τὸν λόγον σου καὶ τήξεις αὐτά»· «λειτουργούντων δὲ αὐτῶν, φησί, τῷ κυρίῳ καὶ νηστευόντων εἶπε τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον· ἀφορίσατε δή μοι Βαρνάβαν καὶ Σαῦλον εἰς τὸ ἔργον ὃ προσκέκλημαι αὐτούς» ὅμοιον τῷ λέγειν «ὁ δὲ κύριος εἶπεν,